Bill McCoy

March 10, 2006

New slashdot thread on eBooks

eBooks - what's holding you back? is generating some interesting discussion. This is not the first time Cliff has taken up eBooks, and as always on slashdot there's a fair bit of noise in the signal, but also some fresh and thoughtful comments, including around the inverse question: "why should I take up eBooks?" Well worth a read.

Posted by Bill McCoy at 11:28 AM on March 10, 2006

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Kaitlin Duck Sherwood — 06:05 PM on March 11, 2006

One of the big advantages of paper is that it doesn't keep moving around. I find when I am reading journal articles, I routinely lose my place.

I just wrote a blog article on what I wanted in an article browser, though I was thinking more of laptop reading. Basically, I want two things:

1. I want documents munged so that they are ALL single column,

2. I really want an eyetracker to mark where I've already read, so that I can easily find my place again.

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