For me, it's not going to take anything; I'm already there.
I read pretty much the entire time I'm awake. I'm a computer programmer, so honing my skills and keeping up with the latest trends requires constant technical reading. I subscribe to about a dozen magazines; some work some fun. I also read a lot of fiction. Of course, there's also constant web reading, like/. and TSS. I didn't really realize how much I read until I had Lasik surgery a few years ago and, for the first time in my life, couldn't read for a couple of days.
In preparation for JavaOne, in June of 2003, I loaded Microsoft Reader on my T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition and My Compaq T1000 Tablet PC. I also loaded Dan Brown's "DiVinci Code", Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom", and Isaac Asimov's "Robot City 3" onto both PC's. I found reading on these two devices amazingly convenient. I always have the Pocket PC with me, as it's also my cell phone, so I could easily read while on lines, during the boring parts of keynotes, etc. When I had my T1000 with me, I'd read from it, taking advantage of the larger form factor. The only problem was keeping my place in the book synchronized between the two, which basically came down to paying more attention to chapter numbers than I usually do.
Since then, I've read fiction almost exclusively on these two devices, without really thinking about it. However, last weekend my wife and I took a quickly arranged trip to Tampa (we live in Columbus) and I happened to be caught up on everything loaded on my "phone". I bought the new Sue Grafton book, in hardback, to read on the plane. What a pain in the ass. The book is heavy, awkward, too big to share the seatback tray with even a diet Coke & bag o' peanuts, and generally not there when I wanted it.
Sure, there are problems: DRM, multiple formats, constant nagging re-registration, and insufferable ideas about where to store the files, and poor title selection to name a few; but all-in-all, I still much prefer eBooks to paper.
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Also, where the digits are easily confused, better to use phonetics. So the answer to your query is "Charlie Foxtrot niner".
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For me, it's not going to take anything; I'm already there. I read pretty much the entire time I'm awake. I'm a computer programmer, so honing my skills and keeping up with the latest trends requires constant technical reading. I subscribe to about a dozen magazines; some work some fun. I also read a lot of fiction. Of course, there's also constant web reading, like /. and TSS. I didn't really realize how much I read until I had Lasik surgery a few years ago and, for the first time in my life, couldn't read for a couple of days.
In preparation for JavaOne, in June of 2003, I loaded Microsoft Reader on my T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition and My Compaq T1000 Tablet PC. I also loaded Dan Brown's "DiVinci Code", Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom", and Isaac Asimov's "Robot City 3" onto both PC's. I found reading on these two devices amazingly convenient. I always have the Pocket PC with me, as it's also my cell phone, so I could easily read while on lines, during the boring parts of keynotes, etc. When I had my T1000 with me, I'd read from it, taking advantage of the larger form factor. The only problem was keeping my place in the book synchronized between the two, which basically came down to paying more attention to chapter numbers than I usually do.
Since then, I've read fiction almost exclusively on these two devices, without really thinking about it. However, last weekend my wife and I took a quickly arranged trip to Tampa (we live in Columbus) and I happened to be caught up on everything loaded on my "phone". I bought the new Sue Grafton book, in hardback, to read on the plane. What a pain in the ass. The book is heavy, awkward, too big to share the seatback tray with even a diet Coke & bag o' peanuts, and generally not there when I wanted it.
Sure, there are problems: DRM, multiple formats, constant nagging re-registration, and insufferable ideas about where to store the files, and poor title selection to name a few; but all-in-all, I still much prefer eBooks to paper.
Also, where the digits are easily confused, better to use phonetics. So the answer to your query is "Charlie Foxtrot niner".