Re: The Future of Reading
Posted by
Owen Densmore on
Sep 09, 2010; 4:34pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-Future-of-Reading-tp5513198p5515222.html
Although somewhat OT, I think the digital book experience is improving by the minute!
I wish there were not dueling formats, and the readers are changing faster than I can keep up, and the readers are not multiple format in general, and way too many books are not yet digital .. BUT I've just had an experience that will definitely change there use in one area: travel!
I used to haul way too many books in my luggage .. and I often wished I had a book that I had not brought with me. No more! We've got your basic travel guides, text books, novels, cookbooks, italian how-to's, and so on. Even nicer, Amazon keeps a "library" for you .. if you buy a book its forever online even if you delete it from your device, possibly needing more space for the latest who-done-it.
Things are changing like crazy. We looked for italian cookbooks a couple of weeks ago, and nothing. Yesterday we looked again and there were several! So the world seems to be making the change far faster than I had thought.
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