[Air-L] e-books

[rafael alarcon]

Just a reminder, maybe this discussion is forgetting that most of the worlds population do not have access even to printed books, countries were an a I-pad, or any other device like that is just a wanting, a desire in capitalist consumption society. Even when this debate pose an interesteing issue related with books prices, it seems to me that it still focus on first world countries. 

Mexican students in public universities, just an example I know, do not have access to new material (except the first tier institutes such as ColMex, FLACSO, CIDE, etc.), and private consumption through amazon or such, it is a privilegue of some few. 

Rafael Alarcon
Autonomous University of Puebla-Mexico

--- El jue 10-mar-11, natalya godbold <ngodbold at gmail.com> escribió:

De: natalya godbold <ngodbold at gmail.com>
Asunto: Re: [Air-L] e-books
A: "Jonathan Sterne, Dr." <jonathan.sterne at mcgill.ca>
Cc: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Fecha: jueves, 10 de marzo de 2011, 23:52

I don't read books off a screen (yet.  Maybe one day I'll be mad for kindle
like my dad).
I usually find myself working with an interface that allows me to print 10
pages at a time.
so I do that, and then often I scan it back into a PDF and save that on my
computer so I can find it again.
And with the printout, well I do a lot of reading on the train, with a pen
in hand... and it all gets scribbled on.
;0)

What do you mean by "unreadable" though?  After a few pages?  What changes
after the first page or two?
As an ex librarian, I know people often can't work out how to turn the
pages... but that's not what you mean is it.

n


-- 
Natalya Godbold
PhD Candidate (Human Information Behaviour / Health Communication)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney




On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Jonathan Sterne, Dr. <
jonathan.sterne at mcgill.ca> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm just curious.  How many people actually read e-books in the DRMed
> format that publishers provide through a browser interface?  I'm at Stanford
> this year, which has lots of titles in electronic form.  But many of them
> are unreadable past a couple pages.  A .pdf that could be displayed on an
> e-reader device would be fine, but I can't see sifting through a web portal
> that lets me do a whole lot less than what I could do with a physical text.
>  If I really want to read the book, I get the physical copy or see if
> there's a .pdf floating around.
>
> Best,
> --J
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Natalya Godbold
PhD Candidate (Human Information Behaviour / Health Communication)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney





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