Saturday, September 09, 2006

650 _0 $aElectronic books.

I'm all for ebooks... I've actually read a couple online. (Check out Cory Doctorow's fiction on Craphound and Charles Stross's Accelerando, all released under a creative commons licence). But this device... I mean, have a look for yourself.

It seems to me that if ebooks are going to succeed--and it seems that they are, to some degree at least--that it's not going to be because of some strage reader; rather, I suspect it will be because a critical mass of people will start reading on their phones, iPods, PDAs, PCs and the various bits of emergent hardware spawned through convergence. Still, I wonder what kind of reaction you'd get if you whipped that thing out on a bus. Heck, I should buy one now and sell it on eBay in 20 years as a historical oddity. I'd probably make good money.

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