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

[montoya.livejournal.com]

Acrobat is great as a reader on a TabletPC, if the content is sensibly sized. Full-screen mode, single button to flip pages back and forward, and clean attractive display.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

That's kind of the whole point -- for text-stream reading, I really REALLY don't want to be tied to a page size, especially not a large page size. Hence, PDF is a disaster for ebook reading for me. I want a device I can carry with me easily (with many books in it, to cover unexpected reading time). I want a device I can ready comfortably while reading. Both of these argue for smaller-than-paperback devices. I don't care about the small screen -- turning pages on everything I've used is much faster and easier than on paper, so it doesn't bother me at all.