you can still not care about resolution or color depth... books havent in generations, why should you?
why would I spend 2 bucks on a newspaper bias to an opinion? and e-ink works fine in sunlight
read it when I was a kid, done, not a romantic hoarder
if you want to see discardablecontent at its worst, go to a thrift store or used book store, and look at the sheer infestation of books no one wants to look at, they cant even give them away.
depends on which printed version you looked at, the one I last saw looked like a bad photocopy
funny, my wifes nook tablet last a day and a half, and thanks to live wallpaper, and the fact that she constantly plays on it, it never seems to goto sleep
I and my wife are are in our mid 30's and use e-readers My mother, her step mother, and father all use e-readers her grandmother, who stuggles to use a modern cable box does not
so in this poll people over 80 do not use e-readers
My wife does and quote "loves her nook" which was a simple touch, turned tablet
I got her simple touch, rooted it, and use it constantly for office documents, technical PDF's like mechanical drawings and other things such as email, news and weather
as someone who does not read for escapet, I love being able to drop a doc on a tablet and walk it around, she loves it cause its an entire bookstore AND local library, one click away that also lets her take a moment to check facebook, or play a round of scrabble, while listening to her music while between classes
sure the devices have taken a drop, most people are happy with ones they bought... most people now days are not stupid and buy the product they like instead of this weeks fad / toy, and as time marches on the difference between printed and ebook preference will shift
eh yes and no, that little blurb (for the most part) prints bitmapped fonts from ascii strings, which for a "non standard" thing is not too hard, but on the other end of it blanking redrawing the entire screen is too slow, so resource management becomes tricky
least the commies had a video chip to handle all the dirty work for you, just tell it where to look and let it run
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kinkos, staples, office depot....
Cause I cant already to that at any drug store, wallmart, 2 places in the mall, and the grocery store
I just bought 2 of them for work, 22 inch viewsonics, multitouch, not that expensive, great for kisosk style software
sounds like a solution searching for a problem. meat exists, just kill and eat it, whats the beef?
problem is, books infest the world almost as much as used cars, and unlike a used car you cant give them away
a constant 36 hours does not fit my definition of !!!!SELDOM!!!!!
then libraries like my local one started closing at 2pm and not open on the weekends, effectivley making them into a money pit no one cause use
this notion of every book is a treasured artifact amuses me
so you use cheap readers to look at cartoons, and complain about them, cause you know, you read cartoons...
PS every ereader will let you adjust the font size
so my poll has a margin of +-2
then you would be fine on any card, whats the problem, use the windows default drivers
you can still not care about resolution or color depth ... books havent in generations, why should you?
why would I spend 2 bucks on a newspaper bias to an opinion? and e-ink works fine in sunlight
read it when I was a kid, done, not a romantic hoarder
if you want to see discardablecontent at its worst, go to a thrift store or used book store, and look at the sheer infestation of books no one wants to look at, they cant even give them away.
depends on which printed version you looked at, the one I last saw looked like a bad photocopy
what sucks is a 170 meg driver download, thats just fucking stupid
sadly enough I think they got a little smaller
your probably the jerk who drive a 72 buick on the interstate cause it feels fine at 55mph
I dont like upgrading, but a 7800 was like 3 machines ago ... cause its a nearly 8 year old card
funny, my wifes nook tablet last a day and a half, and thanks to live wallpaper, and the fact that she constantly plays on it, it never seems to goto sleep
I see that people buy them and they continue to work next year so they dont have a reason to buy another, which was not an uncommon thing pre 2000
I will give you a sample from my personal life
I and my wife are are in our mid 30's and use e-readers
My mother, her step mother, and father all use e-readers
her grandmother, who stuggles to use a modern cable box does not
so in this poll people over 80 do not use e-readers
My wife does and quote "loves her nook" which was a simple touch, turned tablet
I got her simple touch, rooted it, and use it constantly for office documents, technical PDF's like mechanical drawings and other things such as email, news and weather
as someone who does not read for escapet, I love being able to drop a doc on a tablet and walk it around, she loves it cause its an entire bookstore AND local library, one click away that also lets her take a moment to check facebook, or play a round of scrabble, while listening to her music while between classes
sure the devices have taken a drop, most people are happy with ones they bought... most people now days are not stupid and buy the product they like instead of this weeks fad / toy, and as time marches on the difference between printed and ebook preference will shift
eh yes and no, that little blurb (for the most part) prints bitmapped fonts from ascii strings, which for a "non standard" thing is not too hard, but on the other end of it blanking redrawing the entire screen is too slow, so resource management becomes tricky
least the commies had a video chip to handle all the dirty work for you, just tell it where to look and let it run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxa7Y1TLjas
I have an old TnT2 card in a server, with VESA you can watch windows draw
omg an AC thinks I am an asshole, what will I ever do
yes, people have requirements that may not be the same as yours
It already sounds like you made your choice, so why are you posting a question that is trying to convince us to agree with you?