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Skriven 2007-01-24 20:36:52 av Jeffrey Kaplan (14134.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: How did they do that??
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It is alleged that Jeffrey MacHott claimed:

> You know what would be great?  I've seen eBook readers that were 
> basically oversized (and underfeatured) PDAs.  It'd be great if someone 
> (I'm winking at YOU, PalmOne) could make an eBook reader that was also a 
> full-featured PDA, with the ergonomic design to make it easier to hold 
> one-handed, the size to make it easy to read like a book, and maybe a 
> wrist-strap to make it easy to not drop or get snatched.  Maybe even 
> (and here is where I begin to get overly ambitious) include a USB port 
> or two to use with peripheals like a keyboard or printer.

Dream on... you're more likely to see that from Apple than Palm.

> > The ebook would be a memory chip.  Much more portable and disposable
> > than a paper book.  The computer part is just the display medium.
> 
> Not even memory chips much of the time, the way I've normally seen it is 
> that you spend $4 or $5 or more for a digital copy of a book that you 
> download.

And what do you do with it when downloaded?  If your intended reading
platform is a PDA, it goes onto a memory chip.
 
> Also, with a PDA, it's harder for the boss to tell that you're reading 
> For Better Or For Worse if you're doing it on a PDA than if you had the 
> newspaper laid out in front of you.  Now, if it was Get Fuzzy, the 
> laughing would be a dead giveaway, but that's never an issue with FBoFW.

Side note:  Did you read the blog?  FBoW is going to go "static" at the
end of the year.  That's now two of my favorites that have or are about
to change.  FoxTrot just dropped from being a daily to a weekly. :(

> Also, I don't see things like paper-and-binding copies of the Holy Bible 
> disappearing any time soon.  Is the demand for that high enough to keep 
> it in print at an affordable rate if it were one of the only books being 
> printed, or do you think Bibles will become the next generation's 
> college textbook, with expensive new editions coming out every few years 
> so they could include a slightly different map of Palestine circa 1AD?

I dunno.  But as it happens, I own a few editions myself on dead trees
(two I bought, two were gifts), plus an ebook version from Olive Tree
that's theoretically the same version as one of the dead-trees on my
bookshelf.

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