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lv-ab: RE: EBook recommendation

From: Arild Jensen (no email)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2006 - 09:52:06 EST

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Ken James
    What does the group think? Anybody come up with other good uses? Anyone
    have one yet, if so, comments, likes dis-likes?-Ken

    REPLY
    With those connectors on the bottom how suceptible to damage from saltwater
    spray is it.
    The polymer model sounds pretty rugged but how fragiel is the Mark I if you
    drop it?

    Biggest detractor to my mind is the price, not only of the reader itself but
    the fact ebooks cost considerably more than what I pay for used paper books
    in book exchanges and flea markets.
    And it least in the early years I suspect the kind of book I prefer will not
    show up as an ebook.
    Except for authors like James Mitchener and Tom Clancy I rarely read
    anything that appears on the best seller list.
    My most treasured finds are vintage books often published by vanity presses
    or limited editions from small special interst publishing houses.
    For text books and work related documents this is definitely an asset. Sure
    beats lugging a laptop around.

    Arild

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