A personal jet-pack for the 21st century

[james_davis_nicoll]

Shorter John Siracusa: e-books' coming domination of publishing is inevitable, do you hear me? Inevitable!

Nicked from Charles Stross, who pretty much would have to be more positive about e-books than I am.

Comments

[mgedmin.livejournal.com]

Nokia N810 Internet Tablet only fails at 6 (no bundled PDA functionality, although there are some 3rd party apps I haven't tried) and 7 (no ability to write PDF files).

I have yet to see something better for book reading, (and I include paper books among the not-as-good alternatives).

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

It fails at being a phone, also.

I've got an N800, and it's a great screen, though the aspect ratio isn't right for very much. But I've never quite managed to move from my Palm TX to my N800 + HTC Mogul phone (offering bluetooth internet connectivity) because of PDA issues; no contact manager anywhere in the mix I can stand except on the Palm, and no decent calendar anywhere. The calendar problem may be solved by Google calendar and phone-based web connectivity.

[mgedmin.livejournal.com]

Well, being a phone was not on roseembolism's spec, was it? I interpreted "5. Phone connection and Bluetooth" as being able to get online via Bluetooth dialup to a 3G/EDGE/GPRS phone, which the N8x0 does just fine.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Ah, that could be what was meant.