Interesting Article On Gizmodo about Ebook Readers

JoeC · 04-22-2010, 08:47 PM

http://gizmodo.com/5522341/how-to-fi...-ebook-readers

Tamara · 04-22-2010, 09:33 PM

Interesting article.

parvezali · 04-28-2010, 07:50 AM

Interesting article

pshrynk · 04-28-2010, 10:10 AM

It's nice to see a reasoned and obviously researched discussion of e-readers. No complaints at all about not smelling like a book, etc.

rmm200 · 04-28-2010, 03:19 PM

My word - I am not sure how to handle an article by an intelligent, literate author with no axe to grind.

Recommended reading.

Robert

holterzoff · 04-28-2010, 06:11 PM

Thanks for the link, indeed interesting.

Poppa1956 · 05-23-2010, 10:42 AM

A thoughtful article, indeed. Thank you, JoeC, for the link.

JMikeD · 05-23-2010, 11:45 AM

It was interesting, even though I didn’t agree with a number of his conclusions.

Victoria · 05-23-2010, 12:48 PM

The author's perspective very interesting. I prefer to become immersed in a book's world, so I don't share his desire to have 10,000 other readers a click away. However, he did broaden my thinking about ebooks.

Thanks for the link

Terisa de morgan · 05-23-2010, 01:59 PM

It's OK but too much focused at the end on social networks, at least for me. I'm still crying about underlined text and dog-eared books.

J. Strnad · 05-23-2010, 05:25 PM

He makes excellent points about typography. Personally, I don't like right-justified text and would be delighted to de-justify everything.

cheerio6414 · 05-24-2010, 06:05 PM

Thanks for the article

Giddeaon · 05-24-2010, 08:22 PM

I particularly enjoyed this part....

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Add to the equation that many digital books are OCR scans with broken tables and sloppy page breaks, and you have to wonder just how anyone thinks they can charge a near equivalent price for an inferior reading experience. A reading experience made inferior not because of the device, but because of a lack of consideration in the presentation. A reading experience that can be made better with a stronger focus on fundamentals.

This is so very true, and it's a point that we - as consumers of ebooks and their requisite devices - have not loudly enough decried. I have purchased far too many ebooks that were formatted so horribly as to render them nearly unreadable because of how easily those formatting mistakes intrude on the creative interpretation of the work by eroding the transparency between imagination and the act of literary ingestion. When I begin to notice the physical presence of the words on the page instead of being swept away into the realms of imagination, the reading process is tainted without due cause.

I really enjoyed this well written article. Thank you for sharing.

HistoryWes · 05-25-2010, 02:24 PM

It was a fine article, and whether the changes mentioned appeal to any one of us individually, it is certainly true that ebooks are thought of as just an extension of print, then they're going to be limited.

tripad · 05-26-2010, 05:33 AM

Some great thoughts, especially in the comments area...

04-22-2010, 08:47 PM	#1
JoeC Addict Posts: 322 Karma: 2257942 Join Date: Aug 2007 Device: Kindle Oasis 2 and 3, Scribe	Interesting Article On Gizmodo about Ebook Readers http://gizmodo.com/5522341/how-to-fi...-ebook-readers

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tripad Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: kindle, ipad	Some great thoughts, especially in the comments area... Last edited by tripad; 05-26-2010 at 05:35 AM.

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holterzoff Connoisseur Posts: 67 Karma: 3052 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: cologne Device: kindle3w, Ipad, iphone4	Thanks for the link, indeed interesting.

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JMikeD Evangelist Posts: 473 Karma: 15000 Join Date: Jul 2008 Device: Various and sundry	It was interesting, even though I didn’t agree with a number of his conclusions.

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Terisa de morgan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,330 Karma: 12117215 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Device: Kobo Clara/Aura One/Forma,XiaoMI 5, iPad, Huawei MediaPad, YotaPhone 2	It's OK but too much focused at the end on social networks, at least for me. I'm still crying about underlined text and dog-eared books.

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cheerio6414 Addict Posts: 210 Karma: 36 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: Kindle 2	Thanks for the article

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HistoryWes Teacher/Novelist Posts: 632 Karma: 2274466 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Nevada Device: Nook STR, iPad	It was a fine article, and whether the changes mentioned appeal to any one of us individually, it is certainly true that ebooks are thought of as just an extension of print, then they're going to be limited.