Despite an enduring love for paper, most of my reading these days is done
on computer screens. The sci-fi computer screen of tomorrow teases
my imagination. Hold it, bend it, maybe even turn it\’s pages?
Mark it up, then save your highlighting and notes right (write?-) on the
computer screen, and then with a magic shake, like an old etch-a-sketch,
make all your notes disappear so you can read the original document, yet
still have those notes saved somewhere in the ether?
\”Sneak
Peek: The Computer Screen of the Future,\” from NewsFactor.com
looks at LEP, light-emitting
polymer [google], that \”because it can be made on flexible plastic
substrates, it not only could be extremely difficult to break, but also
could be molded into different shapes and contours.\”
ZDNet\’s \”Are
we ready for digital paper,\” takes a look at a pen
and paper combo that copies what\’s written as a digital picture.
E-Ink [google]
has had a lot of investment and technological advancements the past few
years from various corporations and is promising to be a viable paper-like
[google] reading experience.
LISNews:->Keywords:
book, digital
books, E-Ink.
>Archives: \”New
Video Screen Is Like Paper.\” \”SCREEN
OR PAGE?\”
Despite an enduring love for paper, most of my reading these days is done
on computer screens. The sci-fi computer screen of tomorrow teases
my imagination. Hold it, bend it, maybe even turn it\’s pages?
Mark it up, then save your highlighting and notes right (write?-) on the
computer screen, and then with a magic shake, like an old etch-a-sketch,
make all your notes disappear so you can read the original document, yet
still have those notes saved somewhere in the ether?
\”Sneak
Peek: The Computer Screen of the Future,\” from NewsFactor.com
looks at LEP, light-emitting
polymer [google], that \”because it can be made on flexible plastic
substrates, it not only could be extremely difficult to break, but also
could be molded into different shapes and contours.\”
ZDNet\’s \”Are
we ready for digital paper,\” takes a look at a pen
and paper combo that copies what\’s written as a digital picture.
E-Ink [google]
has had a lot of investment and technological advancements the past few
years from various corporations and is promising to be a viable paper-like
[google] reading experience.
LISNews:->Keywords:
book, digital
books, E-Ink.
>Archives: \”New
Video Screen Is Like Paper.\” \”SCREEN
OR PAGE?\”
It\’s not either-or.
Some bibliophiles
[m-w] may revolt at the digital book incursion, but other bibliophiles
will simply add additional \’qualities of format\’ to their list of ways
to love text.
For example, I often use the full version of Adobe
Acrobat [Google: Sklyarov] to read web pages. With it I can mark
up the pages I\’m reading with highlighting, underlining, and notes and
then save the page to read later. Not only can I read the article
offline, but it\’s available even after the page \’falls off the net\’.
An added bonus is that opening up web pages in acrobat eliminates all
the bouncing / moving advertisements that distract and annoy. Companies
that don\’t want their pages saved this way can make them inaccessible to
acrobat.
Appreciating the versatility of electronic media doesn\’t mean I\’ll ever
completely turn in my pulp for pixels, but I love having options.
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