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What if Harry Potter 5 Was an E-Book?
hakkikt sent a link to a highly speculative what if story on Harry Potter 5 as an E-Book.
The suggestions are pretty extreme- going so far as to saying that this
one book could change the fates of the publishing industry, book stores,
and could even make E-Books more then a pipe dream. Personally I'd
love to see it available digitally, but I still want a real hardcover
copy, and I can't imagine hundreds of thousands of kids staying up
late at night with laptops under their covers instead of the far more
traditional book & flashlight. Food for thought, but I can't really
take it seriously.
What would they call it? Harr E-Potter and the Magic Monitor?
This is the NFL, which stands for "Not For Long" if you keep making those bulls*** calls.
How can you even talk about this when REAL TRAGEDIES are occurring in the U.S.?!
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...that i got from the college bookstore owner the other day when i said, "Man, all these engineering books are heavy. Are they available in pdf?"
He about had me arrested for even thinking such a thing.
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"Ya I finished that last week, it just doesn't work"
Then I guess we could expect a lot more little kids running around in glasses, eh?
I'm not totally kidding. People are always saying how its not that original, not that good. Well ok, but it *is* oddly compelling. I didn't really think the writing was great, or the story, or anything. But I was totally addicted. I couldn't explain it. I have talked to many other people who had similar experience.
It was like having a hypnotist whispering "you love this book" in your ear while youread. Really odd.
Making the books electronic would make their mad schemes even easier, since they can actually flash subliminal messages, which is a lot easier than encoding them with some arcane method into the text of the book.
Its true! I'm sure it is! How else could I get so engrossed into a kiddy book?
E-books are great! You can usually search for a phrase!
Well, you can copy and paste long sections! Well... usually not, when I come to think about it.
Hey, I know, you can print out a couple chapters to read at leisure! Oh wait, you can't do that very often either.
At least you can copy them onto your PDA and read at will... can't you? No? Oh.
I agree!
The only problem is I was scared to read in the tub.
if you drop a book, they usually dry out and you can still read them (even if they smell like bubbles)
my palm pilot probably won't work afterwards.
Another problem, it's really tough to get the authors signature on an E-Book. I suppose they could use a pgp signature, but somehow it's not as nice or collectible.
"Peace, Love and Apathy"
Even better. Couple it with a device that has voice recognition. It could read itself to itself. That removes us from the equation completely.
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You're talking about the Dursleys, aren't you? Not everyone's parents are like that.
There were some rough moments... like at the end where the bad guy gives away the plot.
You have to be careful with pirated books. Next time make sure you download the spoiler-free version.
It's amazing how 5 cent ziplock bag technology is beyond these rocket scientist "nerds".
and the ClearType feature is like eyeball sex.
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Maybe it's just me, but that sounds like it would hurt quite a bit. *poke* ow! *poke* ow!...
I'd probably pick another analogy if I wanted to sell the ideas of e-books.
But what does my opinion matter, I just vote here. It's not like I have any money or anything.
Yeah, so did sailing ships and horses & carts.
BTW, can anyone actually imagine reading Proust as an e-book?
Careful Fauntleroy, you're gonna pull a muscle playing that pretentious twit act so hard.
It'll work, just make sure you put it in the oven afterwards...;-) http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tp c&s=50009562&f=34709834&m=4620975863
Yes, the new P4-2GHzs now in the HPs do tend to run fairly hot, but I didn't expect just a missing heat sink to turn it into a goblet of fire!
--pi