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Ebooks may just be like digital cameras were in the 1990s: full of promises, but some way off a compelling replacement for film cameras. How long before iPads
by jl6 13y ago
Ebooks may just be like digital cameras were in the 1990s: full of promises, but some way off a compelling replacement for film cameras.
How long before iPads come with hundreds of 600dpi screens, each double sided, flexible, 0.1mm thick, and stacked in a hinged pile to form a truly digital book?
- jasomill 13y agoThat'd be an incredibly wasteful and extravagant way to simulate the paper book UI, especially given that paper books have wildly different form factors. Do you really want to lug around a device the size of The Structure of Evolutionary Theory† to read a comic book? † 1464 pages, weighs more than 11 Kindle Paperwhites in hardcover