{"id":212,"date":"2005-06-13T12:57:50","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T12:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2005-06-13T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T12:57:50","slug":"reading_manga_on_sony_librie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/13\/reading_manga_on_sony_librie\/","title":{"rendered":"reading manga on Sony Librie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deadsunrise\/18916824\/in\/set-444695\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"18916824_d08adac331.jpg\" img border=\"1;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/18916824_d08adac331.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCame across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deadsunrise\/sets\/444695\/\">Flickr photoset<\/a> of Japanese comics on a Librie &#8211; Sony&#8217;s electric ink ebook reader. Even in a photo, the reflective, print-like quality of the screen is striking. People have generally raved about the Librie&#8217;s display, but are outraged by its senseless DRM policies: books self-destruct after 60 days. (discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/05\/04\/the-sony-librie\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/07\/02\/sonys_librie_ebook_r.html\">here<\/a>)<br \/>\nOnce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eink.com\/news\/releases\/pr70.html\">E ink<\/a> enters the mainstream, people might flock to electronic books as rapidly and enthusiastically as they did to digital photography. Screen display technology will undoubtedly advance. The DRM problem is trickier.<br \/>\n(Incidentally, I found this image while browsing recent blog posts under the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ebook\">ebook<\/a>&#8221; tag on Technorati. Flickr images tagged with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/ebook\/\">ebook<\/a>&#8221; are placed alongside. An example of how these social tagging systems are becoming interconnected.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this Flickr photoset of Japanese comics on a Librie &#8211; Sony&#8217;s electric ink ebook reader. Even in a photo, the reflective, print-like quality of the screen is striking. People have generally raved about the Librie&#8217;s display, but are outraged by its senseless DRM policies: books self-destruct after 60 days. (discussed here and here) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,493,1849],"tags":[2361],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright-and-copyleft","category-digital_literature","category-the-ideal-device","tag-ebook-manga-comics-books-librie-sony-gadgets-drm-tags-eink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}