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![]() As for what to call ebook readers, how about something simple like Digital Readers? Or maybe, Digital Display Devices (DDD's)? Although, I do like Liseuse, it has a little more romance to it. ![]() |
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Being fairly new and all, I'm wondering...
Why "liseuse"? what does it mean, actually? I don't know French, and from what little I know "liseuse" reminds me of a piece of cloth. Online dictionaries seem to agree with me, so I'm obviously confused. Does it have another meaning? |
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The problem with "liseuse" is pronouncing the "eu" without sounding like a pedant (for a Spanish speaker)
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for the mobileread tradition behind the use of "liseuse" please see this thread. ![]() |
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The idea doesn't violate the laws of physics... but it is difficult to conceive how it could possibly happen, assuming you give thought to all the requirements and understand the principles of both bookmaking and typography, neither of which are any less relevant to eBooks than they are to paper books, and neither of which is possible to ignore for most publications the way it is (with horribly unaesthetic results) for uncomplicated novels. But a disagreement on a specific issue should not altogether kibosh a nicely developing sympatico moment. ![]() - Ahi |
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To this old Southern boy (who don't know French), "liseuse" looks too much like "less use!" which does not describe my reader.
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I think it's really easy to decide. When I do a search for 'liseuse' on google images I get results such as Liseuse de Matisse (and lots of other beautiful paintings)
: ![]() When I search for ereader there's nothing but boring and factual technical pictures. Dull, dull, dull, too dull to post here. |
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![]() I wouldn't be surprised if it would be a misuse of the word, though: it wouldn't be the first time that a foreign word gets a totally different and unexplainably new meaning in Italian. |
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