The eBook, Mark 2

Selanit writes "David Pogue recently published a review of the Sony Reader, under the title Trying Again to Make Books Obsolete. Though he likes the device in general, he concludes that it's not destined to replace the book any time soon. Well worth a read."

Just one question:

[Woldry]

From TFA: "One charge is good for 7,500 page turns. That's enough power to get you through "The Da Vinci Code" 16 times (electrical power, anyway)."

So my question is: Why would you want to?

Re:the one advantage

[kfg]

pulp books do not need electricity. . .

Why yes, I do live in a basement, you insensitive clod.

KFG

Re:Direct link

[Anne_Nonymous]

Link to printable version [nytimes.com]

:)

Re:the one advantage

[eneville]

I have a fifty odd year old book I bought second hand recently. It has one or two holes in it where it got torn up pretty badly. However, I can still read it. I probably couldn't say the same thing about a fifty year old computer text file, as it would pre-date ASCII and likely be written on some old format like a punch card, so I'd probably need to buy some specialist hardware like a punch card reader, then write a program to translate the data into a modern format.

I know some 50 year olds who could read that punchcard for you...

Re:the one advantage

[Anonymous Coward]

pulp books do not need electricity

But strangely, many pulp authors do. Either in small jolts to stimulate output, or in a large surge to halt the next Dianetics.