On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Patrick Reilly < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Owen: > How many BtC's would you wager on your prediction? > longbets.org On Sunday, December 22, 2013, Owen Densmore wrote: > >> Just like other digital replacements (think of Kindle/Ebooks .. nice to >> read, but hard to share and sell, but update instantly) there are speed >> bumps not yet resolved. >> > This example surprised me because I thought it was going to be about how technical differences often ensure that two things that are billed as the same thing often behave as separate tools for separate uses. But the aspects you mentioned are not inherent to ebooks, because without e-ink screens and specialised formatting, and also without DRM, ebooks (like Project Gutenberg or pirated contemporary novels as PDFs) are often *easy* to share and *hard* to comfortably read, at least without regular breaks for one's eyes (both compared to paper books, of course). -Arlo James Barnes
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