At 04:17 PM 10/7/00 +0800, you wrote:
>They did a demo of it with some public-domain books. I tried it, but my
>daughter isn't sure she wants to hear "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
>at all, and then when I put the mousepad and 17" monitor on the bed
>;{)....sigh, e-books have a long way to go. And they will have to be
>small and light - updated SURVPC's?
>
>I am probably not going to be buying any PDF's for a while - but living
>far from any good book stores (we're talking a 1 hour jet flight) -the
>option has some appeal. Still,I guess I'm old. I like the dead-tree
>variety....
>
>Bob Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ha ha
but seriously, ebooks come in a lovely format, a device about the size of a
book which holds many books,
http://www.techtv.com/freshgear/firstlook/story/0,3679,2122077,00.html
Some libraries are already carrying them and you can borrow the electronic
device or if you already have one, use it to borrow the ebook from the
library. The ebook you download is only available if another borrow isn't
using it, the library will have a set number of copies, and when you borrow
it, it will vanish from your ebook device when the borrowing period is due.
Given that a large percentage of our old growth clearcutting is for
producing paper, this is a good thing.
Now, how do we wean people off their newspapers and flyers?
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