year 2060…thoughts
I am sitting in a chair wearing a cozy drape of wool reading a book, my grand son comes to me and asks
“what is that you looking on grandpa”
its a book, sunny boy, don’t you see
“a book”
the boy will take the book of my hands, flip it over and over again with a very curious look and asks
“Grandpa where do you put the batteries in”
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trees would be thankful, electronic books will end the need for wiping off forests for paper, no need to run large energy hogging printing presses using all kinds of chemicals and inks. No more energy expenditure on transporting, warehousing books magazines and newspapers.
the future is indeed bright.
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year 2060.......thoughts
I am sitting in a chair wearing a cozy drape of wool reading a book, my grand son comes to me and asks
"what is that you looking on grandpa" its a book, sunny boy, don't you see "a book" the boy will take the book of my hands, flip it over and over again with a very curious look and asks "Grandpa where do you put the batteries in"
:D
Maybe you will have a nice conventional book that requires some kind of batteries. Digital page is a technology which is going to be very common in few years. You e-book will look and feel like a real book with pages to flip but you would be able to uplaod a new novel of Harry Porter on those pages without leaving your house.
BTW, I dont like the concept of E-book, the way it is now.
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TLK, it will be changed, already the work is in progress to have books with pages that you can turn, or things which be more book like with flexible paper and u hold it like a book not like a tablet and it has a left and right page.
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Yes I heard that the technology is in pipline now. Here is one artcile that I found on the web
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Why do books have to have physical pages? What's wrong with regular ebooks where u click a button to get to the next page? I've been reading ebooks for years now. I have 4-5 books on my phone and a dictionary and it all fits into my pocket.
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Why do books have to have physical pages? What's wrong with regular ebooks where u click a button to get to the next page? I've been reading ebooks for years now. I have 4-5 books on my phone and a dictionary and it all fits into my pocket.
Typical E-books dont give you that conventional, familiar feel and look. Its not just about functionality, its about how familiar the produt feels to you.
Today's digital cameras can have any shape and form but the manufacturers still follow the same conventional look of old cameras cause that is what consumer is familiar with.
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yep, familiar with the product, one of my pals worked on testing the prototypes to see of it would meet different product standards globally.
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will the e-book be a black warrant to publishing houses. The taste of reading a book will not be there in e-books.
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Look and feel change once people don’t have a choice. Take the Quickie Bar @ GS for instance. At first everybody objected, there were even some people who wrote scripts to bring it back up to the top, but then eventually everyone conceded.
Next people are going to cry about oh why are they getting rid of casette tapes 
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will the e-book be a black warrant to publishing houses. The taste of reading a book will not be there in e-books.
why?
if you have a leather (or a humane leather alternative) bound 'book' which has flexible pages that have the texture of high quality archival paper, why not?
ppl did miss old books after printing presses came around but they got used to that eventually, same for the diff type of paper that we use now versus 100, 200,300. 1000 years.
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8 tracks man…give some damn respect to 8 tracks right about now…
and then pay tribute to the 8 inch floppies..and punch cards and punch tape!!!
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will the e-book be a black warrant to publishing houses. The taste of reading a book will not be there in e-books.
Yeah, I still can't get the taste of using the abacus from my mouth :)
As I mentioned I've read hundreds of ebooks on my phone/pda over the years. I'm as comfortable reading on the little screen as I am with a paper book. And as X2 said, the trees are going to be so much happier.
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Yeah, I still can't get the taste of using the abacus from my mouth :)
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Abacus is not the right example. Advancement from Abacus to current days calculator is the the improvement in technology and functionality.
E-books vs real books is just the improvement in technology. Functionality remains the same. Plus real books are more durable. Drop your cell phone from 4th floor and then tell me how many books you can read off it :)
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I know that this thread is talking about 3G e-books with paper touch and feel but I think the success of the interim 2G e-books will play in important role in determining how those products will fare.
The KSFs as I see them for the success of e-books are:
There actually are two market contenders in the 2G e-books segment at this time… time will tell which one will be able to capitalize upon the opportunities:
Amazon’s Kindle
Sony’s Reader Digital Book
I have a hunch that Sony will do better…
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Yeah, I still can't get the taste of using the abacus from my mouth :)
As I mentioned I've read hundreds of ebooks on my phone/pda over the years. I'm as comfortable reading on the little screen as I am with a paper book. And as X2 said, the trees are going to be so much happier.
Indeed the trees will be happier, but I wonder if books are the only enemy of "birds nest" on a tree top, what about civilization , human greed and the land mafia.
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Indeed the trees will be happier, but I wonder if books are the only enemy of "birds nest" on a tree top, what about civilization , human greed and the land mafia.
thats a diff topic, lets save it for a diff thread :)
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Umar
this technology is like minidisc player or APS camera, it will ecome obsolete before it is able to get a foothold.
some of this other stuff is only years away.
PS: kabhi PM ka jawab day diya karro.
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why?
if you have a leather (or a humane leather alternative) bound 'book' which has flexible pages that have the texture of high quality archival paper, why not?
ppl did miss old books after printing presses came around but they got used to that eventually, same for the diff type of paper that we use now versus 100, 200,300. 1000 years.
sure its because human beings have innate ability to adopt, and to survive. E-book will fill the gap quickly, but a paper book will always be a source of nostalgia.....