Why I will never own an electronic book

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By rick
via softwareblogs.intel.com
Published: Sep 08 2008 / 02:46

Products like the Kindle from Amazon.com and Sony Reader are becoming more readily available, cheaper and more popular. I will never buy one and if you gave me one as a gift I would likely prop up a shorter table leg. If you want to know what I find so repellant about this technology, read this.

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hashmi replied ago:

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Pathetic argument.
I wish DZone allowed multiple Vote Downs.

dmitryx replied ago:

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first - its lousy.
second - how is that about development?

rick replied ago:

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He's asking you to develop better search algorithms. IMO, he's got a point. The "literalism" of typical search is a reflection of something major about how we, as developers, solve problems and when we have reached adequacy in the solutions.

hashmi replied ago:

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Yes. But he could have said that straight.
There was no point of singling out Electronic book technology in the rant.

PeS17 replied ago:

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Lame.

I tend not to buy Kindle either but.. apparently for different reasons.

rick replied ago:

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BTW, I should mention that this is NOT my opinion, but rather the opinion of this particular blog author. I just found it interesting. FWIW - I DID buy a Kindle for my wife, and she loves it.

herval replied ago:

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so you'll NEVER buy an ebook because today's half dozen available models don't implement search well?
wow... do your "real" books implement search anyway...?