Re: Evolution of bookreading

On 25 Apr 2006 09:20:04 -0700, "jadel" <delcolja@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A better analogy would the case of some gearhead re-inventing the wheel
in a costllier, less convenient and more fragile form and then trying
to convince everybody else that his wheel was somehow better than the
ones that had worked perfectly for millenia.

Why is this punching your buttons so hard, Jeff? If some guy comes
along and says, say, you can have the Harvard Classics, all of Mark
Twain, the 11th Brittannica, and the complete archives of The New
Yorker, searchable, in a package the size of a deck of cards, I may
bitch that the screen and the buttons are too small, but I'm not going
to throw my inkpot at him.

Don (Slouching toward Gutenberg)
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