Book People Archive

Re: MP3's vs eBooks

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Attila the Hunn wrote:

> >From: Kellscraft@[redacted]

> >I'm getting older, and I have to tell you, I'm not thrilled with a small, 
> >hand-held device that is hard to read and constantly has to be scrolled to 
> >read.     
> 
> I would just want something small for storage.  Looking at the text would 
> require something bigger and nicer to look at, but able to re-format to 
> whatever text you would want to display.  I don't suppose anything like this 
> will become practical and cheap until I'm dead and gone (I'm young so that's 
> a long ways away...) and I'll always be lugging my books around.  Oh, the 
> horror, what a harsh life we lead. ;-)
> 

Don't give up hope. . .I'm just barely becoming a Senior Citizen,
and I think these things will appear just barely within my lifetime,
so it should be well within yours. . . .

I remember the very first calculators. . .and bought my first one,
used!, for over $100. . .back around 1972. . .which would be around
$500 now. . . .

However, six months ago I bought a fine used laptop for $5!!!!!!!

And of course I have calculator programs for it, Etext programs,
and all that stuff!!!
             

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I know people never believe that the future will come at the same
rate as the past. . .those who believe are called "Futurists" and
are often regarded as silly, because they can't tell the DIRECTION
things will take. . . .

However silly those drawings of people flying around all over the
place from 50 years ago seem to be. . .the TRUTH is that there ARE
that many people flying around overhead. . .sometimes I see a dozen
airliners [airliners???] flying overhead as I was the sun going down
. . .the only difference is that we don't have as many private planes
and driveways for them and helicopters. . .it's not very privatized
is the main difference. . .and not for such short runs. . . .


Thanks!

So nice to hear from you!
             

Michael S. Hart
<hart@[redacted]>
Project Gutenberg
"Ask Dr. Internet"
Executive Director
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