02-27-2009, 05:51 AM | #46 |
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Even the person who invented the word quickly worked out it should be spelled aluminium. Most Americans spelled it correctly too for the first hundred years it was around.
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I do think that you're right that many people ereading (generic term) these days have come to some similar conclusions and are wondering about the various issues and dynamics involved. I don't claim to have all the answers, if there are any. My blog eReading has allowed me to reflect on and begin to record my own views on the broad *experience* of reading on electronic hardware, versus, I hope, a particular device, and the technicalities of a specific one at that, which it seems to me mobileread.com tends toward, as its organization by manufacturer demonstrates. I like and use mobileread.com a lot, an invaluable resource and service to the ereading community! Just a different goal on my blog which I think can be best served in that form. A blog, too, is aimed at the wider Net, and I hope might be a way for others interested to share their views specifically more on the reading *experience* itself, especially along the lines and perspective I'm really interested in focusing on. Thanks to all those who have commented. Frederick Glaysher eReading. The experience of eReading http://www.fglaysher.com/eReading |
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i did a cursory search on MR and it didn't seem to come up (and it seems interesting in any case, although the perspective is perhaps a somewhat more academic rather than casual), but have people seen or read this Rand.org Article?
It seems pertinent. Innovation and the Future of Ebooks Quote:
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02-28-2009, 10:33 AM | #53 |
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To help Harry T. out, here is a two word common appliance usage - "dish washer". It isn't called just washer because you get confused with clothes washer, nor is it call dish, for obvious reasons, as well. And I have never heard it referred to as DW either....
I will still use liseuse.... |
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