What 's the use of a ereader tablet really?

[issybird]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Well, hamburgers come from Hamburg. I don't think there's a place called "Beefburg", is there?

Hamburgers (the people) come from Hamburg. The hamburger was invented at Louis' Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut.

[JSWolf]

Given that a hamburger is a beef patty is a bun, what would we call a burger made from ham?

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

There is no such thing as an ereader tablet. eReader is an eBook format. So the topic is incorrect. The word is e-reader.

You are right. As every fool knows, a tablet is a small disk or cylinder of a compressed solid substance, typically a measured amount of a medicine or drug; a pill.

Speaking of pills, I know a user who is being one

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by issybird

Hamburgers (the people) come from Hamburg. The hamburger was invented at Louis' Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut.

The Wikipedia Article on the subject notes that there are many competing claims as far as the invention of the modern hamburger goes, but all go back to German immigrants to the US.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Given that a hamburger is a beef patty is a bun, what would we call a burger made from ham?

Martha Stewart calls them Pork Burgers.

[arjaybe]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

You are right. As every fool knows, a tablet is a small disk or cylinder of a compressed solid substance, typically a measured amount of a medicine or drug; a pill.

Sorry, but they can't call pills tablets because, as everyone knows, tablets are clay things used in cuneiform writing.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by arjaybe

Sorry, but they can't call pills tablets because, as everyone knows, tablets are clay things used in cuneiform writing.

You are correct. Let it now be known that pills can no longer be referred to as 'tablets'. We'll get this whole language situation sorted

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Computer bird bear sky car paper fish sofa money freezer.

So what did I just say above? I decided to change the meaning of all those words.

You said "Technological flies bring blue rides covering water and potatoes with a cache of Brussels Sprouts.

[frogmobile]

Hahah I never really heard of "francophobia" (lucky I am a bit deaf) but when my Mam was leraning English (in 1936 or so) there was a sentence in the book: "there is always something fishy about the French" Mind you, what you call "french letters" we call "capotes anglaises"..

[ekbell]

When a sufficient number of people give a word(or phrase) a particular meaning for it gains that meaning. Exactly how many people are needed is of course up to debate (but one is certainly not enough)

We might well quibble and argue but that will not change the fact that the meaning of nice changed over the centuries; remove the extra layer of meaning given to the word gender; consistently place electronic before computer; or even stop people from calling genric bandages bandaids.

( Trademark law means that Johnson & Johnson can stop other companies from labeling their 'fabric bandages' BAND-AIDS but they can't stop the use of the generic bandaid in ordinary speech.)

[radius]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

However large phones are getting these days, they're still smaller than my smallest ereader (5" reader). Also, my ereaders are 4:3 format, not 16:9 or even worse 18:9 (that seems toe be the choice of screen these days apparently). And last but absolutely not least, battery life. I can take a few weeks before I have to charge my ereader, my phone will be dead by 2 days, even without use.

I'm firmly in the ereader camp, but depending on your exact devices, the screen difference may not be all that large. I'm attaching a photo of my phone and my most used ereader. As you can see, the phone is narrower, but taller. I agree with you that 4:3 is nicer for most reading for sure. It especially helps the justification when it has more letters and words to work with.

Now on to the important topics

As far as liseuse goes, I guess it depends where you Google it from or what your search history is like because I get mention of the Kobo Aura One in the very first result. It definitely isn't slang in Canada as both The Source (ie: what was once upon a time Canada's branch of Radio Shack) and BestBuy list them for sale under that name. Mind you, I didn't have to actually Google it since I understood TS from the beginning; posters insert snips of other languages all the time. I don't know why this particular instance caused a kerfuffle.

As far as e-reader versus ereader goes, e-reader should never have become au courant as the name of electronic reading devices in the first place if eReader had been on the ball and protected their trademark vigilantly. And if the word e-reader came first, then they shouldn't have been granted the trademark.

Either way, even Kobo refers to their devices as eReaders (see https://us.kobobooks.com/) so I certainly have no trouble calling them that. Hyphens tend to disappear over the long run in any case (does anybody still type e-mail instead of email?)

Staples seems to use the variants interchangably too (https://www.staples.ca/en/Tablets-eR...5_2-CA_1_20001) as do other storefronts I visited...

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by radius

As far as e-reader versus ereader goes, e-reader should never have become au courant as the name of electronic reading devices in the first place if eReader had been on the ball and protected their trademark vigilantly. And if the word e-reader came first, then they shouldn't have been granted the trademark.

Either way, even Kobo refers to their devices as eReaders (see https://us.kobobooks.com/) so I certainly have no trouble calling them that. Hyphens tend to disappear over the long run in any case (does anybody still type e-mail instead of email?)

Staples seems to use the variants interchangably too (https://www.staples.ca/en/Tablets-eR...5_2-CA_1_20001) as do other storefronts I visited...

Yeah, I really don't understand how the e-reader/eReader/ereader segment of this thread came up in the first place. Does it really matter? We are individuals not businesses. If I say while xeroxing some pages I read my eReader and drank a coke, most users would understand that my photocopier wasn't necessarily a Xerox, my book format wasn't necessarily .pdb and that coke wasn't necessarily a Coca-Cola (at least not in Texas or California where 'coke' is generic for 'soft drink').

[Atunah]

Originally Posted by frogmobile

Hi! I will play the Devil's advocate here: What the hec is all about a "liseuse" Ereader Kobo, Kindle and the like while one can read on so many types of screens including the faithful old smartphone? I tried to buy a Kobo but backed off many times while realizing it is expensive and the only REAL strong point is AUTONOMY. To be sure, those Kobo thing do last a long time before running out of puff but I circumnavigated the problem by buying a portable power pack (12 Amp) for my smatphone. My phone costed 69 Au$ and the power pack 12 Euro! Epub reader on the phone is very confy to use with black fonts on soft parchmen background (from the settings). Have a good afernoon.

I just can't read books on a tablet/phone screen. It just doesn't work for my eyes/brain. Its painful. Good for those that can, I can't. I need to have an ereader that uses e-ink. Or whatever the equivalent for it might be in the future, if any.

It also does one thing and one thing very well. Letting me read a book.
Battery life is much better, its easier to hold and my kindle at least has buttons for page changing which is more comfortable for me than swiping.

It doesn't matter how one reads, as long as one does. But I have to be able to read. Paperback fonts are too small now for me, often yellowish in older books so I need to have an ereader. Or I wouldn't be able to read my beloved books.

So whatever works for you.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Martha Stewart calls them Pork Burgers.

That's not using ham so it doesn't count.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

You said "Technological flies bring blue rides covering water and potatoes with a cache of Brussels Sprouts.

Nope. It's nothing to do with food and if it was, it would not be awful brussels sprouts.