Liseuseification

[AprilHare]

Originally Posted by astra

You don't like peaceful life. It is boring.
Petty instigator you are, you know it. You know what you are doing. One hot topic is closed, so let's open another one and do it again.

Good luck.

I'm not worried astra It's just a word after all!
As for complainants.. they should consider HAL 9000's advice:

Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over.

Originally Posted by GeoffC

May I wish peace and goodwill amongst all ....


Dark Chocolate too ....

Thanks GeoffC; keep the dark chocolate coming

[AprilHare]

Originally Posted by TGS

It's an admirable aspiration and I wish you well but here's a bit of a problem. I'm about to move house and over the years I have reduced my paper books down to about 500. I consider myself pretty much liseusified - I use my liseuse every day and rarely resort to paper books - and I was thinking maybe now is the time to just get rid of the this rump of dead trees. Trouble is, I don't think I can do it. This is only partly rational - some of the 500 paper books are reference and academic books that I might use at some point - but most are novels. For example I have the last 8 novels of Iris Murdoch in hardback, they take up an inordinate amount of space, I shall likely never read them again, (apart from The Sea, The Sea), I could get them as ebooks. Why don't I get rid of them - being hardback I could probably get as much for them at the English Bookshop where I live in Denmark. as the ebooks would cost. I don't know why I won't get rid of them but I won't.

Maybe liseusification can happen alongside the continued existence of paper books - I hope so. Maybe paper books will become a bit like vintage cars - nobody would buy a vintage car simply as a means of transport, but there are people who see something of value in just having and maintaining vintage cars.

People often think they will never read a book again - but in a few years, they find themselves doing it again anyways
But yeah keeping books will one day be akin to keeping wine, and e-books for everyday reading. There will always be something not digitized (if I'm not mistaken).

Originally Posted by Moejoe

I am 100% liseuseified, no paper books at all now In fact, I've gone from paper book collector to loathing the damn things. They're so old fashioned and ridiculous for delivering information in the digital age. I'd say we'll still have some die hard collectors around in 2020, but paper books won't be anything but an antique toy or decoration beyond that.

Then again, I did think ePub would win the format war and that's looking doubtful now. So take my predictions with a grain of salt.

I think paper books will still be more than a toy But yeah less and less an everyday thing.
As for ePub, the jury is still out!

Originally Posted by Iphinome

hmmm toute le monde liseuseified.... I guess a few more years till they're so cheap most people have 2 or 3 laying around the house.

You need more than one liseuse?
I could understand having more than one liseuse around for more than one user!

[happy_terd]

I still do not know what a Liseuseification is.

I yahood it and only got links to it being mentioned on this site.

[TGS]

I understand it to mean helping our fellow citizens to learn about and appreciate the many advantages of using a liseuse for reading upon compared with reading traditional paper books.

[AprilHare]

Originally Posted by happy_terd

I still do not know what a Liseuseification is.

I yahood it and only got links to it being mentioned on this site.

You've heard of electricity and electrification, yes?
Liseuse and liseuseification follow the same language pattern
Try doing that trick with "e-book reader" and see how far you get..

[Iphinome]

Originally Posted by AprilHare

You need more than one liseuse?
I could understand having more than one liseuse around for more than one user!

You're thinking small, if a liseuse is cheap you buy a new one, leave the old one laying around, maybe keep different info in each one. Maybe have a large one at home and a 5" liseuse you carry around with you. When you can hand one to a child and won't be overly angry if they break it that's the point where we win. Ubiquitous liseuses.

[Iphinome]

Originally Posted by AprilHare

You've heard of electricity and electrification, yes?
Liseuse and liseuseification follow the same language pattern
Try doing that trick with "e-book reader" and see how far you get..

e-book readerification.

[AprilHare]

Originally Posted by Iphinome

e-book readerification.

Doesn't have that 'ring' to it that liseuseification has.

[AprilHare]

Originally Posted by Iphinome

You're thinking small, if a liseuse is cheap you buy a new one, leave the old one laying around, maybe keep different info in each one. Maybe have a large one at home and a 5" liseuse you carry around with you. When you can hand one to a child and won't be overly angry if they break it that's the point where we win. Ubiquitous liseuses.

Your point is quite valid
... but my bank balance doesn't quite match the overall scope of the dream.. not yet

[Iphinome]

Originally Posted by AprilHare

Your point is quite valid
... but my bank balance doesn't quite match the overall scope of the dream.. not yet

Well patents unlike copyrights do expire so in a few years the early e-ink stuff developed in the 90's will be open for anyone to manufacture. A few more years after that the advances will open up. A free market will drive down prices and then a prs 505 or kindle 1 type device will end up costing about as much as a portable cd player did before ipods became popular.

$30-$50 for a no frills liseuse means you might have 2 or 3 laying around. Someone sitting at their computer might reach for one to use as an extra flash drive and then lend it to a friend as a way of transferring data. I've done that myself with an old ipod shuffle. Imagine someone in star trek holding a small stack of PADDs, they pass them around to other people in the room and don't much worry about it. That's the future of the liseuse I think.

[TGS]

In the city where I live one can use free citybikes. You put a 20 kroner coin (about £2.50) in a slot to unlock the bike, use it for as long as you like, and the return it to any bike station in the city - your 20 kroner is returned when you re-lock the bike.

In some libraries on can borrow a liseuse on which to read the ebooks that one can also borrow.

Now, how about combining these ideas and greatly extending the number of outlets? There's no reason why people have to own a liseuse in order to become lisuseified.

[TGS]

la liseuse, Auguste Chabaud

[ardeegee]

Originally Posted by TGS

In the city where I live one can use free citybikes. You put a 20 kroner coin (about £2.50) in a slot to unlock the bike, use it for as long as you like, and the return it to any bike station in the city - your 20 kroner is returned when you re-lock the bike.

Here in the US, that bike would be checked out, cut up, and sold as scrap, and the funds used to buy meth or crack. We can't even have public copper.

[TGS]

Originally Posted by ardeegee

Here in the US, that bike would be checked out, cut up, and sold as scrap, and the funds used to buy meth or crack. We can't even have public copper.

So maybe the process of liseuseification has to begin in more civilized parts of the world - and maybe that would have a civilizing influence on less civilized parts!