Re: What's an ebook?...What's a reader?
- From: "Robert Raven" <rraven@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: What's an ebook?...What's a reader?
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:40:56 -0900
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From: <NakedWord@[redacted]>
> > when used in everyday situations will be ambiguous. "Reader" used in
> > place of "book" clears up this ambiguity.
> >
> > Personally, I hate the word "reader", though I suppose there is some
need
> > to clear up the ambiguity now that the physical medium and the text are
no
> > longer so irreversibly associated with each other.
> >
>
> Please, God, NO!!! A reader is the person who looks at the book and
garners
> the meaning. What hardware makers may call a reader is nothing more than a
> playback device--a book shower, if you will.
How about "Electronic Cognitive Recognition Artificial Presenter", or ECRAP
for short?
Bob Raven