[WEB4LIB] RE: why ebooks and when?

[Thomas Dowling]

>     While I agree with Rich overall, I would argue that this is changing
for
> the "Net Generation."  Kids growing up with GameBoys, Cybikos, and PDAs
will
> not have the same biases against reading ebooks that we do.

I don't know what biases they have, but they have the same eyeball design
that hasn't been upgraded since Homo Sapiens 1.0.  Comments about screen
resolution, contrast, and reflectivity aren't about being sticks in the
mud, they address fundamental areas of readability in which electronic
book devices still need to go through several generations of development
before coming close to good black ink on good white paper.

Thomas ("Buy stock in Advil and Visine") Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu