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Old 08-04-2009, 05:54 PM   #91
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Technically it's not a reader. The user is the reader. Technically, its an electronic document display device or EDDD for short.
Actually, I like EDDD. It's an acronym that works. Now I think I'll go grab ed and get some reading done.
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Old 08-04-2009, 06:08 PM   #92
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Sure but I think we're a heck of a lot closer to that now with our existing tech.
Sure we are: everyday we are closer than the day before (I'm not sarcastic), but as Shaggy said it's 20 years that we get closer and closer without reaching it.

I like to think of it as an asymptote: we'll get closer and closer without actually doing exactly what we want. To tell the truth, I see many goals that technology strives to reach as asymptotes, and more often than not these goals have been set by sci-fi literature.
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Why not continue the nomen est omen thing mp3 players started and name it PDF Shower* or ePub Displayer?

* Based on the verb to show, not on the water sprinkling device.
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Actually, I like EDDD. It's an acronym that works. Now I think I'll go grab ed and get some reading done.
You can grab Ed or you can read, but you can't do both. Unless you can concentrate a lot better than most folks!

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...we'll get closer and closer...
Isn't that a paraphrase of Zeno's Paradox? That's the other Zeno, of course!
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Old 08-04-2009, 06:55 PM   #95
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I'm boring. I just call them readers. Of course, I don't think stand-alone readers are going to be with us that long. As screen and battery technology improves, we'll be able to have thin, light, readable tablets that last long enough on a charge to be useful for reading books and other content while also performing a variety of other tasks.

Someday when the technology is advanced enough, they'll control everything. Then we can call them Highly Advanced Liseuses.
HAL, there was already a highly advanced computer by that name, I believe.

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Old 08-04-2009, 06:58 PM   #96
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Technically, it should be "E-reader"...
which, of course, is distinctly different from eReader.

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Old 08-04-2009, 07:25 PM   #97
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I would like to publicly announce my unwavering support for a certain lupine member's tireless campaign to make eReader become the universal English language term for the devices that our French brothers and sisters across the pond call "liseuse".
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The term eReader already has a meaning. eReader is the name of the program that displays eReader format eBooks. So using the term eReader to mean eBook reader is incorrect.


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Isn't that a paraphrase of Zeno's Paradox? That's the other Zeno, of course!
It is: the "original" Zeno would have been right, had he applied his philosphy to human evolution and knowledge fields instead of physics
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which, of course, is distinctly different from eReader.

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It absolutely is different, to a proofreader.
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Old 08-04-2009, 10:05 PM   #100
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As I'm sitting here looking at my Sony 700 and thinking about the new 600, I realized that the thing actually has a name! "Portable Reading System" or PRS. That works for me!!
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As I'm sitting here looking at my Sony 700 and thinking about the new 600, I realized that the thing actually has a name! "Portable Reading System" or PRS. That works for me!!
I'm ashamed to say it, but up until today I never looked or was that interested in what PRS stood for. I couldn't believe it actually meant what it meant Seems like as good a name as any to me. A PRS, that fits all the devices easily enough.
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I'm ashamed to say it, but up until today I never looked or was that interested in what PRS stood for. I couldn't believe it actually meant what it meant Seems like as good a name as any to me. A PRS, that fits all the devices easily enough.
I know! Right!?!? I know I've looked at the words, they just didn't click in my head.
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Old 08-05-2009, 12:28 AM   #103
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Take a look at the comment from Sony at the end of this article:

http://gigaom.com/2009/08/04/sony-la...one-will-want/

They actually call their device an "eReader". Just saying
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which, of course, is distinctly different from eReader
Why, can't you pronounce a dash (or hyphen, never got the difference clear)? "edashreader"
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I've actually had to look this up in the Chicago Manual of Style. E-mail, E-reader, E-publishing. And yes, the E is always capitalized.
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