A nice idea, but doesn't hold water.
Posted by Spectrum on 01-25-2008 in eBooks vs. Paper booksA terribly bad pun, but nonetheless true.
Every experience I have with an eBook seems to do nothing less than begin the plauge of vision inpairment for the duration of my deading of the material on most any LCD screen. Especially when it is text-on-text-on-text style books where the reading is verbose and detailed.
Products like the Kindle however, seem to be slowly changing that. I had a chance to play around with a Kindle, and I feel a lot more comfortable reading a book of that particualr screen that I would a computer or laptop screen.
Additionally, the device is less distractive from the reading. If I am on a full-feature computer, distractions such as surfing the Internet and taking 'notes' in the eBook or PDF instead of in the margin or something along that line with a pencil become rather large stumbling blocks, expecially if the aforementioned eBook was actually a textbook of some sort.
I don't think eBooks are there yet, and the only way they can get there is by the format being utilized in an easy on the eyes product that discourages any vision impairment as a result of reading the eBook on it.
That may just be myself, though.