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Fair enough. But would you really call it a work? "I prefer non-fiction works" sounds ridiculous to me. As does "I just loaded some great new works on my ebook." "I just loaded some ebooks on my liseuse" is far less ambiguous. An ebook is a format. It can be on my computer or on my device, because it's a file.
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That said, I think ultimately "book" could well be what people call these. Just as the word "calculator" went from referring to various mechanical aids to the modern electronic device we use today. And "computer" from a person skilled at computing information to the thing you're sitting in front of right this moment. Last edited by Dylrob; 09-14-2009 at 12:22 AM. |
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Until paper books go away, "book" will refer to them. As it is, there needs to be a word for ebook devices. "Book" doesn't suffice because in its current usage it refers to paper books. "I'm going to buy a new book and I don't know what kind to get" doesn't convey the message that one intends to purchase a new device dedicated to reading ebooks. |
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I'm getting a book. I've bought that book, it's awesome, I'm reading it now! What's wrong with that? Why announce you're not reading them with normal ink and paper but on electronic ink and paper or LCD? |
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There's no need to announce it, as you put it, but rather we're discussing a way to refer to our electronic reading devices. "I've bought that book... " might be followed with "Oh! I love that author, may I borrow your book?". You would then need to explain that the book has DRM and you are reading it on an ebook device, so you are not able to lend it to others. There are many situations in which one would need to refer to the actual device. You might want to tell someone that you just put some free books on your... whatever. You might want to talk about what kind of ebook device you are looking to buy. There needs to be a word for it. "Dedicated ebook reading device" is too clunky. We are referring to a piece of hardware for which there is currently no accepted word to describe. There's no need to "announce" anything, just a need to articulate reality (which is the point of language).
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To me, and probably every other British person, a "sedan" is something you sit in, has poles sticking out of it, and is carried around by four men. I would never think of the word "sedan" as being associated with a car.
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I added the caveat that I couldn't speak for the rest of the English-speaking world for that reason. I was replying to a fellow American. I used that metaphor to convey that just because you can refer to War and Peace as a novel, that doesn't mean that most people won't still think of it as a book.
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I was actually agreeing with you, in the sense that it's a good example of the same word meaning different things to different people.
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book is a generic term for various types of books - paperback, hardback, electronic just as file is a generic term for various kinds of files - word, text, jpg... ebook is a term that is used both for an ebook reader and for a specific type of book. There is nothing wrong with that as the meaning is conveyed by the usage as is true of many words in English. |
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