Paul Stenquist wrote:
The Kindle isn't backlit. In fact, it uses power only to go to the next
page. I haven't tried one, but it sounds like a workable alternative,
and I've heard some good things about it.. Ultimately, devices like the
Kindle -- but much better yet -- will replace paper books for novels,
ordinary non-fiction and textbooks. However, I suspect there will be
specialty books, including photography volumes, for quite a few years to
come.
The Kindle is supposedly a big improvement over LCD and CRT screens. It
will succeed when its price comes down by another order of magnitude;
when it's $35.00 instead of $350.00.
But that day *will* come.
Specialty books will continue in print, they'll just become (eventually)
prohibitively expensive for most of us.
Read the "Death of Print" article at
http://dirckhalstead.org/issue0002/okrent.htm
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