Queue on 21/10/2009 at 23:13
Thank you.
Pyrian on 21/10/2009 at 23:24
The level of discourse in this thread is higher than I expected. I have to do something about that.
The Nook E-Book is not nearly as exciting as it sounds like it should be, from the name. :p
Renzatic on 22/10/2009 at 01:07
Quote Posted by dethtoll
You know what a good alternative to the Kindle would be? A fucking book.
Okay, say you're reading the big letter hardcover edition of War and Peace. You know, the one with all the pretty pictures that's thicker than 10 bibles and a phonebook. Now say you want to lug this big ass book around and read it in front of everyone at the Mac Mall. You gotta get your street cred somehow, and reading War and Peace in front of everyone is a great way to do just that. Of course you hate War and Peace, but that just makes the reading thereof oh so deliciously ironic, doesn't it? YOU ARE FUCKING BAD, you tell yourself. Problem is, the book is so damn big, your back started giving out before you even got down the stairs from your hip little studio apartment to hop on your bike. That ain't ironic
at all, is it? No, it's anything but.
THE ALTERNATIVE: Get a kindle. It weighs like half a pound and sorta looks Macish in it's design. The kids will love you for your forward thinking, and respect the carbon footprint on the thing.
So why just "read a fucking book"? BECAUSE IT ISN'T THE ECO-FRIENDLY CHOICE, YOU SELFISH OGRE FUCK!
Queue on 22/10/2009 at 01:10
And all the plastic and circuitry that goes into making that thing is?
Renzatic on 22/10/2009 at 01:15
Yeah. :mad:
SubJeff on 22/10/2009 at 01:17
You can have 1000s of books on it and theoretically all the books you'll ever own again. Do the math.
Renzatic on 22/10/2009 at 01:56
Quote Posted by Rug Burn Junky
95% of the concepts can be adapted by existing devices, and the ones that are left (screen size?) aren't such killer apps to make them necessary for most users. I've read plenty of books (hundreds?) on PDA and smaller size screens, and you easily adapt - it's different, but it's not functionally any inferior.
Can be? They already have been. Your average phone and netbook out right now can do just about everything the Kindle can do, and can probably do certain things better in some cases. I mean nothing's stopping you from reading a book on a tablet PC. One probably sporting a screen larger than what you'd get on a Kindle. The only advantage it has is the e-Ink screen, which is the one thing that makes it so hard to integrate into another product.
I'm wracking my brains out trying to think of some alternative. The best I can come up with is a tablet PC with a sufficiently high res, high quality IPS LCD that lets you kill the backlight might come close to mimicking a Kindle screen without giving you huge amounts of eyestrain. Depending on how it looks in low light situations, it might come close.
SubJeff on 22/10/2009 at 01:59
Quote Posted by Renzatic
I'm wracking my brains out trying to think of some alternative.
i'm wacking off thinking about e-ink
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Renzatic on 22/10/2009 at 02:04
Yeah, I tried doing that too. Didn't do much cept make me sleepy.
SubJeff on 22/10/2009 at 02:18
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Yeah, I tried doing that too. Didn't do much cuz I'm gay for Kindle surprise eggs
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