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The Boston Globe says the e-book has finally arrived. No, really. Really.
Well, anyway, Project Gutenberg is behind it with 300,000 free books, available starting July 4. (But how many of them are the diary of Samuel Pepys? Hey, nothing against it, but I can get a cloth bound copy of the whole thing for like $4.98.)
The article likens it to reading a book on your iPod, to which I say "no." I'm not reading anything longer than a track listing on my iPod.
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Jeez, and here I've been reading books and manuscripts quite happily on my Palm Pilot these past five years. I guess that doesn't count.
;-)
Posted by: La Gringa | June 12, 2006 at 09:31 PM
now that there's reports of ipods ruining everyone's hearing, will eyesight be next?
Posted by: mek | June 13, 2006 at 08:22 PM