Comments on: Ebook Obsession Becomes Dangerous, Intervention Requested

By: Booksquare

Booksquare — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 02:29:49 +0000

Actually, when I said “intervention”, I meant more like, well, money or food. Both of which do not require batteries, either.

By: SusanGable

SusanGable — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:45:43 +0000

GGrrrrrr….they’re still not listening about the price issue, I guess. “Rival” mmpb is NOT going to cut it.

And I do like my Treo – because it’s ONE device to do a multitude of things – including, if I chose to do so, read a book off it.

I was at a meeting yesterday and people were impressed with my tech skills. The truth is it’s only because the little thing is so dang EASY to use. YES! Finally, someone listened, and made it EASY. Now, if only publishers would make the ebooks CHEAPER, and stick to one format that can be used on any type of reader, we just might have something here.

I do like the fact that when reading on the Treo, the text is on a lit screen – very easy on the eyes.

Sorry, BookSquare, I know that’s not helping you to stop blogging about ebooks. Don’t worry, soon enough something else will happen in the publishing world for us to talk about. (g)

By: David Thayer

David Thayer — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:28:08 +0000

Your vacation left the literary world in the lurch. Glad you’re back. My take on the Sony device is this: I’m reading a Ross Thomas novel ( Batteries not included) in conventional book form. I doze off…book falls on floor.
If I own the Sony e-book reader and read the same novel and it falls on the floor I have to call customer service and be put on hold and asked my mother’s maiden name, be cut off, redial, plug device into wall, cause power surge and my house burns down. It’s way too risky.