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A recent article on E-books caught my eye


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They still lurk out there, we are some diehards for this way of reading.

For those of you that do not know (since I haven't talked about it in ages), I carry an E-Book that was made by RCA a few years ago.  The REB-1100 to be exact.  The article I read  points to the 1200 version, which had color and a bunch of other unnecessary things for me.  I can say it is one of the best investments I made long ago.  Unfortunately, the author is also right on that the cost of the digital books was one of the demises he starts to define.  I saw the advantages of the device from day one.

  • No more carrying large quantities of hard or softback books along for the plane and train rides.
  • Reading in bed was a dream.  No more lights as it is backlit.  When you doze off it turns itself off and comes back on at the same page.
  • Loading material was easy through USB
  • Materials (non-protected I say to protect the innocent) is abundant, but on-line stores are hard to find now
  • Maps and other things could be brought down as HTML and moved to it
  • It was rechargeable
  • Books do not have to be on paper, I say!
  • It has underline, highlite and the ability to drop countless bookmarks everywhere
The list goes on but you get the idea.  I do agree that the pricing model was crazy.  Instead of a wonderful discount that still gave everyone necessary  their money, the prices were kept high.  Now if there is no paper medium, binding and distribution, where does all that extra cash go?  One can only imagine back to the publisher and not the author.  Stephen King understood that and started selling his chapters at a time electronically.  He gets all the money!!!

Anyone else use one of these?