So -- do you read on the road -- electronically?

[kinzel]

Once upon a time lots of people were reading on their Palms, on their laptops, on their Rocket Ebook readers... but somehow the readers started locking folks out...

Here's a group trying to have a generic ebook reader built that will do what ebook readers should: let you read the public, non-proprietary formats favored by most of the ebook reading public.

Comment here if you like, but it might be better to comment there and get your name on their list. And take this news elsewhere -- are you listening, John Scalzi?

Comments

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I have already signed up as being interested. The price reminds me of my first TI calculator, my first PalmPilot, and so on. I expect if the market opens up, the prices will drop but it will be a few years. I'm also a bit hesitant about some of the remarks I've read on page flipping. Still, I am interested. I use my Sony Clie daily, it is always in my pocket -- and nowadays it has the Liaden books on it, so it is better than ever. But . . .

I do expect that a larger reading screen would be nice. We use notebooks and books for somewhat different purposes - you write in one, while you read from the other. Similarly, I suspect having a reading tablet that is easily portable will change how we use the computing resources.