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**Kassiopeia** · February 13, 2006, 21:23

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**Apocalypse** · February 13, 2006, 21:24

I don't see why people would really go for books over audiobooks if you are going to go digital. You can get audio books for under $10 generally...including big names like Dan Brown.

**Asher** · February 13, 2006, 21:25

Because audio books are some of the most annoying things on the face of the earth?

**Imran Siddiqui** · February 13, 2006, 21:34

Originally posted by Asher
Because audio books are some of the most annoying things on the face of the earth?

QFT

**Rufus T. Firefly** · February 13, 2006, 21:45

People like me may be a fairly specialized market, but I'd buy one. Why? Because I live overseas in a place without libraries, so every book I want I have to buy; and every book I buy I have to move; and every book I move takes up space in my limited moving allowance. An attractive e-book system with a wide range of available downloads would solve a lot of my problems.

**Apocalypse** · February 13, 2006, 21:46

I enjoy running while listening to a book on my Creative Muvo TX FM

**Asher** · February 13, 2006, 21:48

I prefer listening to music while I'm on the treadmill. Something upbeat.

**Imran Siddiqui** · February 13, 2006, 22:02

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
People like me may be a fairly specialized market, but I'd buy one. Why? Because I live overseas in a place without libraries, so every book I want I have to buy; and every book I buy I have to move; and every book I move takes up space in my limited moving allowance. An attractive e-book system with a wide range of available downloads would solve a lot of my problems.

That's a good point. Books aren't lightweight and people who move often may find a device that can carry 80+ books at once (and others, of course can remain on a hard drive... and not take up much space at all) would be a Godsend.

I just would like for the price to go down. I think I'd mostly use it for classics which are in the public domain.

**DanS** · February 13, 2006, 22:17

I have come to believe that I would prefer e-books to cabinets full of dead tree material, so long as the e-book can read normal PDFs and has a lot of storage space. I'm going to give it a shot in the first or second generation.

NB: This is only one of several e-books going to be built using eInk technology. I think Sony's is just a modified version of eInk's hardware reference design. Philips is introducing one as well.

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**Imran Siddiqui** · February 13, 2006, 22:49

Cool pics:

Dan, I'm hoping others come out with their readers. Competition will only drive down prices.

**KrazyHorse** · February 13, 2006, 22:52

Originally posted by Apocalypse
I don't see why people would really go for books over audiobooks if you are going to go digital. You can get audio books for under $10 generally...including big names like Dan Brown.

Uh...because I can easily read 8-10 times faster than I can listen to somebody speak?

**KrazyHorse** · February 13, 2006, 22:57

Even if I'm reading at my slowest pace, I take in better than 2 pages a minute (assuming I'm reading fiction, "light" history or other such subjects), which works out to ~600 wpm or ~5 times faster than the average human voice. I go through a 300 page novel in 2-3 hours. Why would I ever do that when I can listen to some ******* slowly trickle it out over the course of 10 or 12 hours?

**mrmitchell** · February 13, 2006, 22:57

Yeah but will this kill lending libraries? (Of course when the price goes down enough)

**Rufus T. Firefly** · February 13, 2006, 22:57

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I just would like for the price to go down. I think I'd mostly use it for classics which are in the public domain.

Yep; a snazzy piece of new hardware could be just the thing to get me moving on "The Dickens Project."

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