[MGP-Forum Announce] Sony starts selling the Soney eBook reader: $349.00

[bob@stepno.com]

I'm over 50 too, and I'd get one if I could plug in my Palm TX (for its CPU, WiFi and SD card), then sit back with a Bluetooth keyboard and work out of any coffee shop, pizza place, hotel, airport or college building I've been in recently. 
I'd probably never go home.  
:-)

Bob
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-----Original Message-----
>From: Martin Langeveld <mlangeveld at reformer.com>
>Sent: Oct 2, 2006 9:12 AM
>To: post at mgp-forum.org
>Subject: Re: [MGP-Forum Announce] Sony starts selling the Soney	eBook	reader: $349.00
>
>I'm over 50 and I want one.
>Just to emphasize one thing: the Sony Reader (and another recent
>introduction called the Iliad, by the Belgian company Irex, an offshoot of
>Phillips) use an E-paper screen (see www.eink.com), which is not a standard
>"backlit" computer screen, but uses reflected light and has a very sharp
>resolution similar to printed paper.  7000 page views per battery charge
>means you can read for weeks or months without having to plug the thing in.
>This is not like trying to read a book on your PDA.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: post-bounces at mgp-forum.org [mailto:post-bounces at mgp-forum.org] On
>Behalf Of Aldon Hynes
>Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 9:11 AM
>To: post at mgp-forum.org
>Subject: Re: [MGP-Forum Announce] Sony starts selling the Soney eBook
>reader: $349.00
>
>As an old guard, hardcore geek, nestled between the over-50 crowd and the
>under 30's (although rapidly approaching the over-50 crowd), I've always
>been interested in eBooks.
>
>I do wonder who the target demographic really will be.  As a techie tool, it
>would seem as if it would appeal more to the under 30 crowd.  Yet Jane is
>right in talking about how the under 30 demographic wants more multimedia
>and interaction.  Now, if you can cross an iPod, an eBook, a Gameboy and
>interface it with FaceBook, you might have something.
>
>As to the over 50 demographic, I am dubious.  My mother loves to reads, but
>won't use much for new technology.  Her palsy is bad enough so that she can
>still hold hardcovers, but trying to push some buttons or touch the screen
>in the right place to select a book, etc, just won't happen.
>
>On top of that, earlier this month, my wife, no where near the over-50
>crowd, contracted Lyme disease.  For the past few weeks, she has not had the
>energy to do much other than sit in bed and read.  She's tried to use the
>computer, but it hurt her eyes.  I imagine she wouldn't have had much use
>for an eBook.
>
>Beyond that, when I've used my laptop at the beach, like I said, I'm an old
>guard hardcore geek, I've often found the screen hard to read, and beach
>reading is one of those special reading times, so I worry about eBooks
>there.
>
>Yeah, I might be wrong, but it seems like eBooks needs to find its niche,
>and it hasn't yet.
>
>My two cents.
>
>Aldon
>
>P.S.  My wife is doing a lot better now.
>
>P.P.S. That said, we are going to run out and pickup Second Hand Smoke by
>Karen E. Olson for her to read this weekend.  Check out Paul Bass' review at
>http://www.newhavenindependent.org/Arts/archives/arts_entertainment/books/re
>porter_wooed.html
>
>
>
>
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