“Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”
― Douglas Adams
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Electronic reader of the future
Book Reader of the Future
(Source: retronaut.co)
You knew it would happen eventually - a completely un-ironic eReader Museum
Deep in the heart of Italy a dream is growing. An already large, but growing collection of ereaders is being brought together as the start of a planned museum of ereaders.
NPR - In Praise of eBooks
NPR Commentator and Poet Andrei Codrescu praises the lightness of his e-book. (click for audio)
After years of hurting his back lugging around real books, he finds the electronic device to be a relief for his spine.
When I retire, I promised myself I will read all the great books I said I would read one day, and I’ll reread all the books I once loved. And all my life, it seems I carried boxes full of these books from one city to another, from one house to another, and I furnished endless rooms and gave away hundreds of volumes, and I put out my back many times. And as soon as I retired, I was ready to begin. I picked up my featherlight Kindle, the great chiropractor, and took off for the woods, where I’ve been ever since reading books I never intended to, things like “Books Fatal to Their Authors,” a lovely history of books that literally got their authors killed by various religious and lay inquisitions.
Skins for your retro Kindle (yes Kindle 1s are now retro).
KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence
Patented Smart E-Book Interface Prototype implemented with Apple Private API
Don’t want to be bothered while reading? Try one of these book covers.
Yes, these are book covers, but I think this would be a great idea for eReader covers. I’m going to try to turn one or 2 into a cover for my Kindle. M-Edge offers a service that makes custom covers based on images you provide. It’s called MyEdge, and fun covers like the ones above are exactly why it was
The book covers are available for download as PDFs, so I’ve downloaded them and then converted them to image files. I am currently trying to fit them to the cover templates provided by M-Edge, and if I get a good result I will share it via M-Edge’s service. My first attempt will be with the “In Narnia, BRB” cover.
Of course you could convert your ereader to a taser…
Seemed Like a Good Idea At The Time #34: COO.BOO
Back in 2007 you might have heard, that soon there would no longer be a need to risk your laptop in precarious situations in the kitchen. Modeled after a spatula, coo.boo was a digital cookbook concept that fit into the kitchen environment better than any laptop or printed cookbook.
Recipes stored on the user’s computer were to be automatically synchronized through a wireless docking station and displayed on the face of the device. “Digital function” allowed the cook to choose the degree of support wanted, from simply displaying recipes to full audiovisual cooking lessons. Not fragile like other high-tech digital devices, coo.boo was advertised as washable and could be placed on the counter top or hung up next to other kitchen utensils. Designed by Philipp Gilgen, a student at the University of Applied Sciences in Northwestern Switzerland, it recently won the IF Concept Award 2007.
Still in prototype stage in 2007, there is no record of it actually making it into production.
butterflyistic cogitation of the curious am.b.: To all of you Kindle/ereader haters
I hear a lot of hate towards my poor little innocent Kindle. I hear a lot of valid, strong arguments against owning an ereader. But I love it, and thus here are my counter arguments: (the arguments against are bolded)
1.) I like to smell a book and feel myself flip the pages
I love that…
Looks just like mine. A great little eReader designed for one thing - reading.
I DUNNO GUYYYSSS I JUST DON’T EVEN KNOW.
Sketch of my Sony eReader, because reasons?
