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I both meant an investment of time and money :) I don't like reading entire books on the computer. It just feels better on paper ;)
by rlm 18y ago
I both meant an investment of time and money :)
I don't like reading entire books on the computer. It just feels better on paper ;)
- xenophanes 18y agoI agree about paper books. Does anyone who feels the same have a kindle? Supposedly the screen is more like paper. Wondering how well that works...
- jrockway 18y agoIt is very much like paper. (The display area is smaller than the average hard-cover book, however, but that doesn't bother me too much.) The only thing I don't like about the Kindle is that you can't skim to get an overview of the book or newspaper... you basically have to use the table of contents or read it in order. Not so bad for books, kind of annoying for local news. (The killer feature of the Kindle, though, is the effortless buying feature. When you have to pay $30 and go to the store or wait 5 days for shipping, you tend to not buy books. When you can click a button and start reading on a paper-like screen instantly, it becomes much easier to read all the books that you've been "meaning to" read. But I digress.)
- derefr 18y agoSomeone should really make a hybrid E-Ink/LCD reader. A transparent LCD overlay (with backlight) for skimming, that switches off after you stare at the same page for a few seconds and re-displays the current rendered page on the E-Ink display underneath.