TerriO said:
As someone with half of their bibliography in eBook format on first release, it's wonderful to see a discussion of the format not degenerate like they usually do up in TrekLit.
First, my apologies for responding to your post in reverse order but, well, I guess my mind just works that way.
Second, I wanted to comment that, somewhat ironically I suppose, I first began reading e-books so I could read the SCE series that I was hearing raves about (in TrekLit at the time, believe it or not.) So, in a way, I guess I owe you my thanks for helping me make the jump. It's also ironic to me that I had no idea at the time that the person with whom I was engaging in good natured Yankees-Red Sox ribbing on TBBS during the day was the same person whose work I was reading on my PDA at night.
All of which makes me more sad to hear this:
It's part of the reason I've quit writing for the Trek fiction line. I'm tired of having my work dismissed or told it's not "real" purely for the format it's in.
And finally (re:
TerriO, anyway), I had to say that I found this comment very amusing:
... bringing up eBooks there tends to start a war between the Dead Tree Society and the Early Adopters.
I just happen to be a combination of a "green"-Oregonian-tree-hugger and an early adopter, so I guess e-books were absolutely
made for me.
On another point ...,
Stone_Cold_Sisko said:
Usually the big limitation with devices like this is, with a smaller screen, at a readable text size, you would only have a little bit of text viewable before you'd have to switch pages, or constantly push buttons to scroll, it's like a paragraph is a page literally.
This is one of the things I really like about the Sony Reader: the screen size is big enough that you're
not constantly flipping pages or scrolling ... unless you have it set at its largest type size. Which leads me to another feature I like: that you can change the type size from small to medium to large with the touch of a button. It's nice, for instance, if I've forgotten my reading glasses somewhere or if I want to read in bed but don't want ot wear them.
... limitations (like the "screen refresh" in between pages, oh dear god that's annoying). Of course I'm really only basing this on the Sony eReader.
I also just wanted to say that, at first I thought this would bother me, as well, but I very quickly got used to it and find that I don't even notice it anymore.
And honestly, I am
not on Sony's payroll. I am aware there are limitations to the Sony Reader, and there are other alternatives out there. Heck, I actually got it as a gift and was looking at other alternatives, myself, at the time. But, as an owner of the device, I have really come to like it quite a lot and wanted to be a resource in case anyone had any questions about it.
Carry on folks.
