Comments on: Multimedia and networked e-books could benefit from IBM storage breakthrough—and public domain books, too http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/11/multimedia-and-networked-e-books-could-benefit-from-ibm-storage-break-through/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:57:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Alexander Chow-Stuart http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/11/multimedia-and-networked-e-books-could-benefit-from-ibm-storage-break-through/#comment-761467 Alexander Chow-Stuart Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:22:34 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/11/multimedia-and-networked-e-books-could-benefit-from-ibm-storage-break-through/#comment-761467 As a professional author and screenwriter, I would hope that some kind of protection for creative work would accompany this kind of development - but as an avid web junkie who uses the web and my iPhone as my primary source of news (and I read news from all over the world) and my primary means of watching movies (I barely watch TV of any kind) - although not yet of reading books (although I'm sure I will eventually, when the interface is sufficiently comfortable) - I welcome the prospect of smaller, faster memory with great excitement. The iPhone for me has been a revelation (and I used Blackberries and Treos when they first emerged): an object of true beauty that can slip in my pocket and that functions extremely well for email, web browsing, movies, music, weather, stock quotes and more. Supercharge that with greater speed, memory and connectivity, create an even more "paper-like" screen for reading - that perhaps switches to a smoother texture for movies - and bump up the intuitive quality of the interface, and we will have something more powerful and more useful than any of today's PCs in our pocket. As a professional author and screenwriter, I would hope that some kind of protection for creative work would accompany this kind of development - but as an avid web junkie who uses the web and my iPhone as my primary source of news (and I read news from all over the world) and my primary means of watching movies (I barely watch TV of any kind) - although not yet of reading books (although I’m sure I will eventually, when the interface is sufficiently comfortable) - I welcome the prospect of smaller, faster memory with great excitement.

The iPhone for me has been a revelation (and I used Blackberries and Treos when they first emerged): an object of true beauty that can slip in my pocket and that functions extremely well for email, web browsing, movies, music, weather, stock quotes and more.

Supercharge that with greater speed, memory and connectivity, create an even more “paper-like” screen for reading - that perhaps switches to a smoother texture for movies - and bump up the intuitive quality of the interface, and we will have something more powerful and more useful than any of today’s PCs in our pocket.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/11/multimedia-and-networked-e-books-could-benefit-from-ibm-storage-break-through/#comment-761461 David Rothman Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:09:22 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/11/multimedia-and-networked-e-books-could-benefit-from-ibm-storage-break-through/#comment-761461 Alan, that's a great point in your last paragraph. .Epub reading apps, especially, should look ahead to this new era of mass storage. Thanks. David Alan, that’s a great point in your last paragraph. .Epub reading apps, especially, should look ahead to this new era of mass storage. Thanks. David

]]> By: Alan Wallcraft http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/11/multimedia-and-networked-e-books-could-benefit-from-ibm-storage-break-through/#comment-760860 Alan Wallcraft Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:14:58 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/11/multimedia-and-networked-e-books-could-benefit-from-ibm-storage-break-through/#comment-760860 Another example is off-line access to wikipedia, which today is a stretch for ebook devices. However, almost all existing ebook reading software is designed for relatively small documents and might break on even a 10MB ebook let alone a multi-GB reference work. Another example is off-line access to wikipedia, which today is a stretch for ebook devices.
However, almost all existing ebook reading software is designed for relatively small documents and might break on even a 10MB ebook let alone a multi-GB reference work.

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