First kind of Kindle?

[tuskin]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...d-library.html

tuskin

[Cinisajoy]

That is neat. A portable bookshelf.

[GlenBarrington]

It has the added advantage of being impossible to steal if you leave it on the table at McDonalds to get some more ketchup, or paper napkins. Those Jacobeans knew a thing or two about restaurant etiquette.

[frahse]

I am impressed. These are for serious readers.

[FizzyWater]

Anal-retentive soul that I am, it's making me a little itchy that those books aren't in order - and some on the bottom shelf were upside down!

Sigh.

Very cool, though, I have to admit. What an incredible gift.

[gmw]

How do you read delicate books wearing gloves like that? I mean, I know it's supposed to keep the nasty oils of your skin off the pages, but I can just imagine the pages tearing because you can't feel them properly through those gloves!

And yes, FizzyWater, the out-of-order (and upside-down) thing rubs me all the wrong way too.

[JSWolf]

The topic is very much misleading and wrong. The article is not about a new Kindle. It's about a portable pBook library. And the title of the OP's post is wrong too. This is not about a Kindle.

[gmw]

JSWolf, given that the topic includes a question mark, might it be sufficient for you to post simply: No!

(Or, since we need more characters to submit: "No this is not the first kind of Kindle.")

Which is obviously enough, since I doubt if a kindle will get your books out of order and upside down - yet another, previously unrealised (by me), advantage of e-readers.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The topic is very much misleading and wrong. The article is not about a new Kindle. It's about a portable pBook library. And the title of the OP's post is wrong too. This is not about a Kindle.

Since the title of this thread was taken directly from the title of the article, this topic and thread title are not misleading and wrong.

[fjtorres]

One reason so many of us like ereaders is because they are literally portable libraries.
It can be amusing to see what attempts to create such a thing looked like without the benefit of modern technologies.

In more recent times, a portable library could be achieved through microfiche technology:

http://worldmicrographics.com/handhe...fiche-readers/

http://worldmicrographics.com/portable-readers/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microform

In fact, in the SF world, quite a few stories featured portable "ebook" readers that were projectors or goggles that used photographic film spools of text. It was the "obvious" evolution in an age without PCs and where microfiche archives were ubiquitous in the science and engineering world.

It was a very different time where Engineers often married their computers.

Between 1927 and 1935, the Library of Congress microfilmed more than three million pages of books and manuscripts in the British Library;[8] in 1929 the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies joined to create a Joint Committee on Materials for Research, chaired for most of its existence by Robert C. Binkley, which looked closely at microform’s potential to serve small print runs of academic or technical materials. In 1933, Charles C. Peters developed a method to microformat dissertations, and in 1934 the United States National Agriculture Library implemented the first microform print-on-demand service, which was quickly followed by a similar commercial concern, Science Service.[4]

In 1935, Kodak's Recordak division began filming and publishing The New York Times on reels of 35 millimeter microfilm, ushering in the era of newspaper preservation on film.[7] This method of information storage received the sanction of the American Library Association at its annual meeting in 1936, when it officially endorsed microforms.

Harvard University Library was the first major institution to realize the potential of microfilm to preserve broadsheets printed on high-acid newsprint and it launched its "Foreign Newspaper Project" to preserve such ephemeral publications in 1938.[7] Roll microfilm proved far more satisfactory as a storage medium than earlier methods of film information storage, such as the Photoscope, the Film-O-Graph, the Fiske-O-Scope, and filmslides.

The year 1938 also saw another major event in the history of microfilm when University Microfilms International (UMI) was established by Eugene Power.[7] For the next half century, UMI would dominate the field, filming and distributing microfilm editions of current and past publications and academic dissertations. After another short-lived name change, UMI was made a part of ProQuest Information and Learning in 2001.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

One reason so many of us like ereaders is because they are literally portable libraries.
It can be amusing to see what attempts to create such a thing looked like without the benefit of modern technologies.

In more recent times, a portable library could be achieved through microfiche technology:

http://worldmicrographics.com/handhe...fiche-readers/

http://worldmicrographics.com/portable-readers/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microform

In fact, in the SF world, quite a few stories featured portable "ebook" readers that were projectors or goggles that used photographic film spools of text. It was the "obvious" evolution in an age without PCs and where microfiche archives were ubiquitous in the science and engineering world.

It was a very different time where Engineers often married their computers.

Interesting side note to your quote which didn't show up here. I can tell you that by 1937 many newspapers were on microfilm. I know this because in 1997, I wrote an English paper on the New London School explosion. The librarian pulled out every newspaper microfilm they had for the few days after March 18, 1937. She also got out the old magazines from that time frame.

[4691mls]

I would have thought JSWolf would be happy that it included a sturdy case

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Since the title of this thread was taken directly from the title of the article, this topic and thread title are not misleading and wrong.

Just because the article is wrong is no reason this thread should be wrong,

That article has nothing to do with Kindles. If the author thinks so, then the author should be looking for a new job.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

One reason so many of us like ereaders is because they are literally portable libraries.
It can be amusing to see what attempts to create such a thing looked like without the benefit of modern technologies.

In more recent times, a portable library could be achieved through microfiche technology:

http://worldmicrographics.com/handhe...fiche-readers/

http://worldmicrographics.com/portable-readers/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microform

In fact, in the SF world, quite a few stories featured portable "ebook" readers that were projectors or goggles that used photographic film spools of text. It was the "obvious" evolution in an age without PCs and where microfiche archives were ubiquitous in the science and engineering world.

It was a very different time where Engineers often married their computers.

Microfiche was not really portable. The film yes, but the readers of the film, nope. So if you wanted to read the microfiche, you'd have to tote around the reader and have access to a power outlet.

As for SF, one of the best examples was Star Trek TNG with the PADD.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Just because the article is wrong is no reason this thread should be wrong,

That article has nothing to do with Kindles. If the author thinks so, then the author should be looking for a new job.

But that title gets clicks. Old books in a case won't.