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How many times have you gone through a book and want to keep reading some more, without going to the library? You buy the physical book shell, about 400 with electronic pages. Then, you connect to the internet through the book modem and choose the actual novel you want to read. After a short period
of time, the book would appear. Depending on its length, the font size would change. Or, the book could be divided into part 1, and then part 2. There might have to be a small charge for each book, so that the copywriters wouldn't get mad. Fun!
Sans the 'physical pages'
http://www.palm.com/
[phoenix, Aug 16 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
The Electronic Book Web
http://12.108.175.91/ebookweb/
[phoenix, Aug 16 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
All about electronic paper
http://www.eink.com/
[phoenix, Aug 16 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Rocket eBook
http://www.rocket-ebook.com/
One example of the genre. [jutta, Aug 18 2002]
Planet EBook: Hardware
http://www.planeteb...d=14&TBCategoryID=8
Different display systems available. [jutta, Aug 18 2002]
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Fishbone for being completely ignorant of the "ebook" genre's existence, although the marketing model conception of contiguous text is different from what exists. |
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A copywriter is someone who writes advertising texts. What you mean is a "copyright owner". |
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Reading text on screen sucks. As replacement for real books, This Will Never Work. |
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[And if it ever does, you can stick that in my face and go nya, nya, nya. But no sooner.] |
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jutta, reading on a clay tablet sucks too. I don't doubt that even I will live to see acceptible 'e-paper', reflective and the resolution of newsprint. |
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Books are still a far more indepth repository of information than anything on the 'net, which is still largely shallow, superficial, American excerpts of other works... when it comes to books. |
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I feel reasonably confident that electronic paper will be along soon, but there's a permanence to books that will ensure their popularity for a good while yet. |
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Of course, I'm biased. I have about 6,000 of them. |
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UB: Nothing like knowing something you *just* bought is outdated already, huh? What am I to do with all these books now? |
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[thc] shirley computers are practically outdated the moment you get them. I have a friend who is constantly complaining that he has to buy new upgrades for his comp to keep it in touch with current technology. |
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cool. you could make the pages slightly luminous as an option, so you could read at
night w/o a flashlight or lamp |
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[thc], I don't know. I mean, there are just so many problems with books. You can't get batteries for them, you can't upgrade the software used to read them, they don't crash unexpectedly, there's no ongoing licence fees... Yep, they're *obviously* outdated, if they're all *that* primitive. |
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