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« Reply #1 on: 15:24:49, 20-11-2007 » |
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I haven't really bothered reading about it so far, but AFAIK, the price is outrageous, and to me it looks unnecessarily bulky. I await the day (which I am certain is not far off) when "electronic paper" facilitates distribution of an entire book (or newspaper) on a single sheet.
I can't help being curious, Mr.Grew. If you detest the idea of buying and selling books and texts, do you endeavour to limit yourself to inherited literature? or are you one of those people that would rather patronise a public library for entertainment or research?
As for the "Kindle" replacing television and the internet, I rather suspect that web-enabled telephones are already undermining the foundations.
I can't help but wonder if the name "Kindle" relates in any way to the infamous "Bonfire of the Vanities" (Fiorenza, Italy, February 1497)
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« Reply #2 on: 15:52:09, 20-11-2007 » |
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The kindle's a bit shit in a lot of ways. It has 20 hours of reading life, instead of the several weeks that devices such as the sony reader can manage (eink displays only need use battery power to change the image). And there's no way of transferring files of the device, or of using them on any other device. And the disk space will be enough for books, but not for comics or graphic novels, say. And it's not colour.
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« Reply #3 on: 16:02:48, 20-11-2007 » |
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I predict that the electronic "book" as shown on the link will be a flash in the pan. Despite the Internet real books are still alive and kicking, so to speak, and seem to me unlikely to be displaced significantly by electronic substitutes.
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« Reply #4 on: 16:44:40, 20-11-2007 » |
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kindle:
INK particles (i n & k) displayed electronically
methinks. clever.
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« Reply #5 on: 16:47:14, 20-11-2007 » |
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I predict that the electronic "book" as shown on the link will be a flash in the pan. Despite the Internet real books are still alive and kicking, so to speak, and seem to me unlikely to be displaced significantly by electronic substitutes.
I would use the current devices in a flash if they could display A4 pages clearly (for journal articles) and have decent memory. Oh to be able to carry about my whole library with me at all times! (Especially good for poetry books I think  ). Two or three years off though, I think/hope. |
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« Reply #6 on: 16:54:21, 20-11-2007 » |
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Oh to be able to carry about my whole library with me at all times! (Especially good for poetry books I think ). What, you mean you don't know poems off by heart?  |
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« Reply #7 on: 16:56:59, 20-11-2007 » |
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Oh to be able to carry about my whole library with me at all times! (Especially good for poetry books I think ). What, you mean you don't know poems off by heart? Actually no. Not at all. Bit of a pain actually. But anyway. |
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« Reply #8 on: 17:21:57, 20-11-2007 » |
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How strange that member Grew should have an evident disdain for books, the repository and communication of knowledge for well over two millenia. A physical volume for me at all times, please: the feel and even the smell of individual books are all part of the pleasure.
Books Do Furnish a Room....
(Incidentally, I've made no secret of the fact that I'm no fan of music downloads either. How can you size people up, the first time you visit their home, if you can't scan their shelves of music and literature?)
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« Reply #9 on: 22:48:59, 20-11-2007 » |
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How strange that member Grew should have an evident disdain for books . . . Evident disdain our foot . . . and preferably after a long country ramble. Members especially Mr. Patio have interestingly pointed out many defects drawbacks and shortcomings of this device more promise it would appear than delivery - as is indeed often the case in "business" is it not? In life the wisest course we have found is to keep at arm's length commerce and employment in general. We are by Nature true Socialists we suppose; would that every one were! |
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« Reply #10 on: 22:51:21, 20-11-2007 » |
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How can you size people up, the first time you visit their home, if you can't scan their shelves of music and literature?
 Try asking to use their pc to check your email, then inspect the "most-recently visited links" |
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« Reply #11 on: 02:01:42, 21-11-2007 » |
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In life the wisest course we have found is to keep at arm's length commerce and employment in general.
Please tell, dear Sydney. How do you keep employment in general at arm's length without embracing starvation? |
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« Reply #13 on: 21:21:00, 29-04-2008 » |
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I hope it was invented by Sir Clive Sinclair.
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