I haven't commented on the BookNet blog yet, but since you are actually using the iLiad, I will start here:
One question before I go on: Can you upload the Adobe version of The Road onto your iLiad? My sense was that anything with DRM was incompatible with the iRex reader and I don't feel like wasting $9.95 US to find out.
I've started to get comfortable with my e-reader. I was a bit deflated when I came home from winning it at the conference in March to find that I couldn't use it for current books, only books that were available for free online (i.e. Project Guttenberg, or EFF supporters), or illicitly obtained.
Since then, I've started re-formatting manuscripts and web content for the reader. It's a bit of a pain, but actually makes reading, like, The New York Times Book Review more enjoyable and quaffable-- reading web content on the reader keeps me focused on the article and eliminates the temptation to surf around (that might be backwards thinking, linear reading that is, but I've started to think that multitasking and hypertexting is just evidence of a low-attention span).
Haven't finished a complete book yet, but then again, I haven't exactly had the spare time lately to really dig into any one tome for very long.
Hey Rob: Jackie was just saying we should contact you to get you to make comments on the booknet blog, ah the synchronicity of it all. I think you are right as far as the DRM is concerned. I think I will email Jeff and ask him about that because I don't feel the urge to splurge either. On another note I am sitting here impatiently waiting for the mobipocket thing to happen. It is supposed to upload automatically when it is good to go.
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I haven't commented on the BookNet blog yet, but since you are actually using the iLiad, I will start here:
One question before I go on: Can you upload the Adobe version of The Road onto your iLiad? My sense was that anything with DRM was incompatible with the iRex reader and I don't feel like wasting $9.95 US to find out.
I've started to get comfortable with my e-reader. I was a bit deflated when I came home from winning it at the conference in March to find that I couldn't use it for current books, only books that were available for free online (i.e. Project Guttenberg, or EFF supporters), or illicitly obtained.
Since then, I've started re-formatting manuscripts and web content for the reader. It's a bit of a pain, but actually makes reading, like, The New York Times Book Review more enjoyable and quaffable-- reading web content on the reader keeps me focused on the article and eliminates the temptation to surf around (that might be backwards thinking, linear reading that is, but I've started to think that multitasking and hypertexting is just evidence of a low-attention span).
Haven't finished a complete book yet, but then again, I haven't exactly had the spare time lately to really dig into any one tome for very long.
Hey Rob:
Jackie was just saying we should contact you to get you to make comments on the booknet blog, ah the synchronicity of it all.
I think you are right as far as the DRM is concerned. I think I will email Jeff and ask him about that because I don't feel the urge to splurge either.
On another note I am sitting here impatiently waiting for the mobipocket thing to happen. It is supposed to upload automatically when it is good to go.
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