I haven't read a paper book in nearly 3 years. Nearly everything I've wanted to read is available in digital form somehow. The problem with ebooks is a lack of really good hardware. I use a Palm to read ebooks, but traditional PDAs are rapidly declining as we know. The iPod doesn't have a big enough screen to read comfortably, and most phones have the same problem. Nobody wants to buy a dedicated ebook reader either because that is too great an expense for too limited a function. I'm gonna continue to stick with it though and hopefully someone will come up with a mass-appeal solution in the near future.
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I haven't read a paper book in nearly 3 years. Nearly everything I've wanted to read is available in digital form somehow. The problem with ebooks is a lack of really good hardware. I use a Palm to read ebooks, but traditional PDAs are rapidly declining as we know. The iPod doesn't have a big enough screen to read comfortably, and most phones have the same problem. Nobody wants to buy a dedicated ebook reader either because that is too great an expense for too limited a function. I'm gonna continue to stick with it though and hopefully someone will come up with a mass-appeal solution in the near future.
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for at least the last 10 years.
This was on Yahoo's front page today at about 10:00 AM MST http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060210/tc_cmp/179102 616
I tried to reverse emissions once, but it gave me really bad abdominal cramps.