On Wednesday 17 Nov 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 11/17/2010 12:20 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: > > I'm old-fashioned (or maybe just old) but I still find it much > > easier to read on paper than on a display. It'll be a sad day > > when all you can get is digitised books, unless digital paper > > technology has advanced at least a few order of magnitude by then. > > Have you seen the latest generation readers ? eg. the B&N Nook or > Amazon's Kindle3 ? > > I've been using the new amazon kindle3 for about 2 months now - and > its quite nice - zero eye strain ( just about as comfortable to read > over long durations as regular paper ). As long as they can make it > possible to resell books and lend books to other people, I dont see > myself going back to buying a paper book anymore ( as long as the > epaper version exists ).
Well, the Kindle and its brethren are out anyway for me due to DRM. Apart from that, I'll switch when the e-paper becomes as thick and as flexible as, say, a 8-page newspaper supplement. This is going seriously OT, so I don't want to start listing out all the things you can do w/ books that you can't with e-paper (or vice versa, for that matter). Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
