Originally Posted By peeaanuut I do agree on some sense and for books that are really worth it I buy the hard copy. But for simple entertainment books its e-book all the way. Kind of the best of both worlds I guess.
Originally Posted By cstephens I think I'd have a hard time with ebooks. I do a lot of reading off the internet, but nothing replaces the feel of a book in my hand, and as someone else has already said, the feel of turning the pages. I've also discovered that if you're looking for a particular passage, it's extremely difficult to do scrolling electronically. I guess if they had a search function and you could remember some of the unique words you were looking for, that might help. /cs
Originally Posted By peeaanuut Many of the e-book software apps have bookmarking and notemarking capabilities. Some even have snip which allows you to take a passage and keep it in a list with notes, etc.
Originally Posted By beamerdog I think I would like it for light reading and news, but back in the day when I was doing research on an uncharted topic at a research firm, I would have missed a lot if I hadn't been able to see articles that I would have missed with a computer search. Maybe I haven't gotten the gist of it after all these years (not really), but there's something to be said in discovering the unexpected in a glance when having hard copy in your hands. And that, I believe will be forever lost to original research in uncharted topics.
Originally Posted By ToonKirby This is so "Star Trek", but then again, aren't cell phones just primative communicators?
Originally Posted By jasmine7 Well, I'll admit when I'm wrong. I researched the Sony Reader & I bought one from their site about a week ago. One of the big pushes for me to pick it up from them is they have a special through January (I think) that you get 100 free books from their Classics line. I absolutely love my Reader so much! I do a lot of reading in my recliner & bed, and I love being able to read it one-handed. The screen doesn't hurt my eyes (a major problem with me and reading any more), and I could even read it in the movie theater while waiting for Enchanted Saturday (I only had to bump the font up to large).
Originally Posted By mapleservo I heard Andy Inhatko (uber-geeky tech columnist) review the Kindle on a podcast, and he thought it was amazing. Here's his print review... <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/672259" target="_blank">http://www.suntimes.com/techno logy/ihnatko/672259</a>,CST-FIN-Andy29.article Weird thing is, the reading aspect was the thing that impressed him the least. He was most impressed with the "Free Internet Access" and the connection to Amazon's Mechanical Turk, which sounded kinda cool. From what I've heard the Kindle sounds fairly cool. I hear photo rendering is horrible (Black and White with limited levels) so I wonder what the newspapers will look like. But it'd be a huge plus to avoid all that paper piling up. But the books are still relatively pricey, aren't they? Usually when I buy a book I read it and then pass it on to friends. You won't be able to do that with these things.
Originally Posted By ni_teach I can't see this taking off or being popular. The price point is still to high for what you get in return.
