On Jan 8, 5:07*pm, Wayne Knight wrote:
On Jan 6, 11:36*pm, "Russell D." wrote:



Actually, I am now more convinced that they will not replace books for a
long time. Many books just do no work well on them. I purchased one book
on my Kindle that had a lot of illustrations that text kept referring
to. It was very inconvenient to try and go back and forth from the text
to the illustration.

This is where the iPad has the advantage. There is a Kindle app for
the iPad so one can access the Kindle library, but with the iPad they
tell me one can integrate the graphics in a book on either the iBook
app or the Kindle app.

The trouble with the iPad (as well as the applications mentioned by
Steve W.) is that it isn't a book. Neither is the Kindle, of course,
but it looks, feels, and behaves (more or less) like a book. I (and
most of the rest of us, I presume) already have a computer or two, a
phone with more computing capacity and memory than an Apollo
spacecraft, a camera that knows more than I do, and various other
electronic gadgets that will, eventually (and probably sooner than
later) replace me. And I don't mind any of that.....but I like
BOOKS......and if I'm going to use an electronic ersatz book, I want
one that looks and feels and behaves much like A BOOK!.....or, better
yet, a library which is, after all, simply a book to the nth power.

Wolfgang
now, if they could just capture that musty old ink, paper, and leather
smell.