[Air-L] e-books

[יוחנן ועקנין]

Hello,
I would like to add my two cents to this subject. There are many websites
proposing "shared" copies of academic resources, out the P2P network.

For example, have a look at this link :
http://avaxhome.ws/blogs/everest555




Regards,
Yohanan Ouaknine
Graduate Student
Information science
Bar Ilan University
Israel


On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:30 PM, rafael alarcon <tractatus91 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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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