08-19-2010, 08:48 AM | #16 |
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08-19-2010, 10:15 AM | #17 |
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I read while I eat a lot. Most of the time I can manage to keep one fingertip clean , but if it's a particularly messy situation, I do this:
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08-19-2010, 10:22 AM | #18 |
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The correct term is eBook. Note the capitalization. It's not EBook or e-book or E-Book or e-Book. It is eBook. Same way at the beginning of a sentence as in the middle.
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08-19-2010, 10:26 AM | #19 |
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The Great and Mightly JSWolf has spoken. Henceforth, all posts referring to eBooks as anything other than "eBook" will be deleted and the offending party banned for life.
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08-19-2010, 10:36 AM | #20 |
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08-19-2010, 11:05 AM | #21 |
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According to Oxford dictionaries, it's e-book. This is in line with the most popular usage on Google.
According to Chambers (my favourite!), it's e-book or ebook. Chambers is the bestest dictionary in the world in space, so that settles it in my view - either is OK. I haven't found a dictionary that suggests e-Book or eBook. Is this a provincial usage? |
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I think a popular view is it's whatever you want !!!!! (apart from eReader, that's a device name)
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08-19-2010, 11:34 AM | #24 |
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08-20-2010, 12:36 AM | #28 |
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I like this thread. It has the right level of perversity, indecency and controversy.
Some provocative questions to the distinguished members that read their eBooks while eating. Do they read their eBooks while they are posting? Do they eat while they are posting? Do they eat only finger food? Spoiler:
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I always find this interesting that few readers call what they read a story .... always a book or ebook
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