{"id":43,"date":"2005-01-12T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2005-01-12T10:00:56","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T10:00:56","slug":"the_ideal_device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/12\/the_ideal_device\/","title":{"rendered":"the ideal device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"splitbrain.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/splitbrain.jpg\" width=\"153\" height=\"115\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ebook reader.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/ebook reader.jpg\" width=\"99\" height=\"115\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ebook reader1.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/ebook reader1.jpg\" width=\"97\" height=\"115\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gemstar.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/gemstar.jpg\" width=\"112\" height=\"115\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fcreep_ebook.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/fcreep_ebook.jpg\" width=\"136\" height=\"115\" \/><br \/>\nBob <b><a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/new_ebook_sight.html\">wrote a couple of days ago<\/a><\/b> about the new French <b><a href=\"http:\/\/bookeen.com\/Cybook\/Default.aspx?selectionm=1\">Cybook<\/a><\/b> &#8211; a sleek, but heavy, new ebook reader. Everyone interested in serious electronic books is waiting for the ideal device to come along, so that screen-based reading will be as comfortable paper-based. The benchmark for most is: &#8220;can I take it into bed with me?&#8221; <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dog in bed.jpg\" img style=\"margin:5px;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/dog in bed.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"115\" align=\"left\"\/> This is a very serious question (people who sleep with their laptops notwithstanding). But my hunch is that these successive generations of reading devices are missing the point. Who wants a device that is just for reading books? I don&#8217;t have a bag devoted exclusively to toting paper books. I carry many things together &#8211; books, pens, magazines, cds, maps, pictures, food etc. People are already using their cell phones for just about everything.<br \/>\nI think what we&#8217;re waiting for will be descended from laptops. They will likely resemble tablets, or even scrolls. It&#8217;s hard to predict. But take a look at <b><a href=\"http:\/\/wordmunger.com\/wp-trackback.php\/56\">this nice post at Word Munger from last year<\/a><\/b>. I think this is on the right track.<br \/>\nWould love to hear some ideas&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob wrote a couple of days ago about the new French Cybook &#8211; a sleek, but heavy, new ebook reader. Everyone interested in serious electronic books is waiting for the ideal device to come along, so that screen-based reading will be as comfortable paper-based. The benchmark for most is: &#8220;can I take it into bed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-ideal-device"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}