Re: OT -- Because...

On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:56:41 -0600, Misifus
<rafseibert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

debnchas wrote:
"Ken Cashion" <kcashion@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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...this is an international forum and I respect the judgment of so
many of you here -- on so many varied subjects -- I have a personal
question.

There is the term "fishing in the wrong hole" that might apply here.
This is when a fellow is trying to do the right thing but in the wrong
place.

For instance... do many of you read on-line...like books...articles...
and the like? Not just for information but for entertainment?

Does anyone here set aside time to spend reading on-line? (Even at
home? <g>)

I know that Stephen King really screwed up trying to sell an e-book.
That might have been a little ambitious but this is not quite what I
mean. .

My principal source of information has always been books, with recent
filler-information gained on-line, but perhaps my age keeps me from
seeing a more popular fishing hole...the net in general, as a reading
source.

Perhaps many, many people are reading on-line and I don't know it
because I am so far out of the loop.

Ideas?
Opinions?
Suggestions?

No money is involved. Something more valuable than money is...time.

Ken, kid trying to learn a trade.

I read quite a few physical books but I also do read online... books,
articles, whatever. I don't usually set aside a certain time to read, but
because of the availability of books online, it's hard not to spend some
time sitting there even though reading on a screen is not the same
experience as holding the book. My daughter has a book reader device ( I
think by Sony) and she loves it; I find that the display screen (or maybe my
eyes) just don't cut it.

I find that, too. I have wondered if the refresh rate has something to
do with that. I find that, for anything critical, I have to print out a
hard copy and proof that.

-Raf

Raf, I am wondering if it might be position, or the difference in a
reflective versus emissive one.

I remember the older word processors with the monitor rotated 90
degrees and beneath the work surface.

There is a real area of study here. It would take a flat screen on a
long cable. The reader could sit in his favorite chair, turn the
screen at a slight angle ccw (the way I read), and, of course, the
screen viewing parameters could be a common news media font with the
contrast adjusted accordingly.

The "pages" could be turned by pressing the left or right lower
corners; right -- forward...left -- reverse.

A parallel test could be having readers read their regular books but
they must be out of their hands on a stand in front of them...as in
mounting the book to the face of a computer monitor.


Eventually, we would learn which parameter is THE one that makes us
prefer reflective medium. We might also learn that our monitors are
not the correct shape or post ion, or even design.

Ken
.

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