Stitch on 9/3/2009 at 18:07
Quote Posted by dethtoll
To be fair it's extremely difficult to read comics on your average portable ereader due to the format and the average ereader's comparatively small screen size.
Yeah, anything unable to support a full two page spread is pretty much worthless in regard to graphic novels.
Ostriig on 9/3/2009 at 19:38
Quote Posted by Brethren
Funny how no one argues that for Iphones or Ipods. For what you get, I think it's actually reasonable.
uh oh, what have I done...
Well, we've been over that (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125358) before, you and I, and the discussion can get a bit more complex. And for the record, I don't know general price ranges for MP3 players and smart phones, but I'm most definitely not among those who'd consider Apple's other products as "reasonably priced". Let's just leave it to differing opinions in this regard, I simply thought the comic was funny and worth a link.
Macha on 9/3/2009 at 20:08
Fuck the corporations.
Books have been around for god knows how long and have yet to properly fail. Hedge your bets on the paperback.
Renault on 9/3/2009 at 20:38
Quote Posted by Macha
Fuck the corporations.
Books have been around for god knows how long and have yet to properly fail. Hedge your bets on the paperback.
Riiiight...because there aren't any corporations out there publishing books, of course. :p
And in your preparations for the upcoming war, keep in mind that no one ever said that physical books and e-books couldn't co-exist. Might want to adjust your bets accordingly.
@Ostriig: Sorry, wasn't necessarily meaning to have that comment aimed just at you, I meant to open up the point to the forum as a whole.
Ostriig on 9/3/2009 at 22:29
Quote Posted by Brethren
@Ostriig: Sorry, wasn't necessarily meaning to have that comment aimed just at you, I meant to open up the point to the forum as a whole.
No worries, dude, I didn't get upset or anything. Sorry if I gave you that impression.
<Username> on 9/3/2009 at 23:46
I will get an e-book reader soon, depending on prices and some key features like annotations. I almost daily read research reports and conference proceedings that are only available as digital documents. The peer review and publishing process helps guarantee a certain amount of quality of texts, however, books targeted at a small scientific community cost anywhere from 30 to 50 Euros, while often, PDFs of entire chapters from them are freely available from their respective authors. It's a lot easier to extract excerpts and select information from digital formats than having typewriting from printed materials. If you're working in an academic context, having to solely "stick to proper books" would be plainly impractical.
(
http://reader.txtr.com/specifications.html) txtr reader supports annotations and was shown as a prototype at the CeBIT 2009 exhibition in Germany.
the_grip on 10/3/2009 at 00:54
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Amish?!
Brother if that were true would I even be
here?
Ya ya, was joking. In all honesty, I actually do prefer a physical book, especially the smallish hardcovers. Graphic novels, well, I can't imagine trying to read them on an eReader. A friend of mine gave me several of the Savage Sword of Conans a while back in an email and they were utter shit to read on a computer. Yes, these were of course pirated I assume if they came through an email, but I did not keep them nor do I really care. I hate to even mention this because it does discredit my original question! Anyways, my point is that reading a graphic novel even on a computer sucked to me, but that's just my two cents.
However, technical journals, software architecture documentation, etc. etc. (i.e. the stuff I would read on this eReader) are what I'm mainly trying to get at.
Lastly, regarding the iPhone, my work actually bought mine. I did cough up an additional $50 to get the bigger one (8GB I think? Can't remember now...). I must say that, in my little opinion, the iPhone is worth the expense, but then I use it to check email, surf the web, etc., not to mention that I write work applications for it (why my company paid for it). I don't particularly like (in fact I hate) developing for an iPhone, but it is an ingenious little device.
the_grip on 10/3/2009 at 03:58
Can anyone give any recommendations as to good netbooks? That also sounds interesting. I doubt there are any student discounts for these gems, but I am in grad school if anyone knows of a discount program...
Kolya on 10/3/2009 at 09:39
Samsung NC10 or ASUS EEE 1000H
