Re: [tlug] Amazon Kindle

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

Keith Bawden wrote:
> On 11/25/07, CL <az.4tlug@example.com> wrote:
> > In that respect, perhaps it has mimicked a real book just a little too
> > well.  It means that you need a good outside light source to make it
> > readable.
>
> It means you can read it in full daylight and every other lighting
> condition that you currently read a book in.

No duh.

Therein lies the issue.  If it "only" does what a book does, then a book 
is still the more cost effective alternative -- without resorting to the 
acid content of cheap paper / bookshelf argument and keeping it at the 
basic reading or traveling level.  If I can read it in a long flight, 
train, or in a bus without disturbing other people with a bright 
overhead light, or if I can read it  while passing through marginal 
weather, then it does another useful thing that a book can't.  How many 
US$10 books will you have to read on a US$400 reader before it becomes 
more cost effective than a paperback?

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CL