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Arild Jensen wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ken James
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> 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?
>
It would be easy to put a piece of black electrical tape over the
connectors...I do that with my laptop.
If it is very light, it is probably drop resistant.
> 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.
>
True. But I get almost any book you want for free on the net with a
little digging.
> 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.
>
They are all on esnips. I have most of what both have written. I have
Chesapeake, my fave Mitchner and several others of his.
> 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.
>
>
Believe it or not, vintage books are more readily found on the net,
unlesss it is a special 'first edition' or something like that.
And these books will not mold, since I keep back up copies at my
brothers house in TX and on a large external hard drive.-Ken
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