for a moment there i thought you were that other guy. :)
i don't recall now why i didn't jump right on the rocket way back when; i remember i wanted to. but then something kept me. did the company threaten to go bankrupt or something? damn, i wish my memory weren't getting so poor.
anyway, i am in love with electronic paper, but really, the rocket is a nice little reader. and wow, that price is excellent -- i could buy one for the paramour and myself, and still come out ahead of the sony. though i don't really care to read by the romantic glow of the screen; my eyes need extra indirect lighting anyway. and it's a bit heavier. the notes feature might be something i ought to point out to zemblan up there; me, i no longer write in my books. the hyperlinking, now, that is nice.
content is at this point sort of irrelevant. eventually (once on the boat) i will want to buy new fiction, but i figure maybe the publishing industry will have worked things out sufficiently by then. if not, i'll buy whichever format what i want to read comes in and use whatever hacks exist to pull out the data and convert it into the format i need. i've never actually looked at it, but considering some of the noisy exchanges on usenet, ebook hacking is quite the thing out there.
hm. something to think about. i shall have to read up on the precise specs. holding one of each in my hands would be nice too. thanks for pointing at it in any case!
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for a moment there i thought you were that other guy. :)
i don't recall now why i didn't jump right on the rocket way back when; i remember i wanted to. but then something kept me. did the company threaten to go bankrupt or something? damn, i wish my memory weren't getting so poor.
anyway, i am in love with electronic paper, but really, the rocket is a nice little reader. and wow, that price is excellent -- i could buy one for the paramour and myself, and still come out ahead of the sony. though i don't really care to read by the romantic glow of the screen; my eyes need extra indirect lighting anyway. and it's a bit heavier. the notes feature might be something i ought to point out to zemblan up there; me, i no longer write in my books. the hyperlinking, now, that is nice.
content is at this point sort of irrelevant. eventually (once on the boat) i will want to buy new fiction, but i figure maybe the publishing industry will have worked things out sufficiently by then. if not, i'll buy whichever format what i want to read comes in and use whatever hacks exist to pull out the data and convert it into the format i need. i've never actually looked at it, but considering some of the noisy exchanges on usenet, ebook hacking is quite the thing out there.
hm. something to think about. i shall have to read up on the precise specs. holding one of each in my hands would be nice too. thanks for pointing at it in any case!