Comments on: Tower of eBabel: Horrors at Fairfax County library http://www.teleread.com/library/tower-of-ebabel-horrors-at-fairfax-county-library/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dear Author.Com | The Sony Reader: NOT the Ebook version of the IPOD http://www.teleread.com/library/tower-of-ebabel-horrors-at-fairfax-county-library/comment-page-1/#comment-89417 Dear Author.Com | The Sony Reader: NOT the Ebook version of the IPOD Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:20:58 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5096#comment-89417 [...] Dave Rothman often refers to digital formats as the Tower of eBabel and it is such an apt description. There are dozens of formats and none are interoperable. If these e-reader execs think that we readers are just so hot for this technology that we will take the time to run our books through 4 different software programs they are greatly out of touch with realilty. Perhaps they have read too many paranormals? Sony, in real life, people do NOT shift into werewolves, vampires do NOT exist and there is not always a HEA at the end of every romance. That’s just in the books. [...] [...] Dave Rothman often refers to digital formats as the Tower of eBabel and it is such an apt description. There are dozens of formats and none are interoperable. If these e-reader execs think that we readers are just so hot for this technology that we will take the time to run our books through 4 different software programs they are greatly out of touch with realilty. Perhaps they have read too many paranormals? Sony, in real life, people do NOT shift into werewolves, vampires do NOT exist and there is not always a HEA at the end of every romance. That’s just in the books. [...]

]]> By: Roland Rohde http://www.teleread.com/library/tower-of-ebabel-horrors-at-fairfax-county-library/comment-page-1/#comment-65804 Roland Rohde Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:31:52 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5096#comment-65804 I agree...almost....Mobipocket is a nice format...but only if I create it myself...I hate files that die and device that have to be activated and don't use them if at all possible. PDf is pretty bad when it is drm infested, but .lit is easy to crack so I have to quarrel with that... I can make a .txt from the .lit and then use it in all devices....^^ But I guess any format that forces us to get illegal before we can use it properly isn't worth the code it's written in... I agree…almost….Mobipocket is a nice format…but only if I create it myself…I hate files that die and device that have to be activated and don’t use them if at all possible.
PDf is pretty bad when it is drm infested, but .lit is easy to crack so I have to quarrel with that…
I can make a .txt from the .lit and then use it in all devices….^^
But I guess any format that forces us to get illegal before we can use it properly isn’t worth the code it’s written in…

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/library/tower-of-ebabel-horrors-at-fairfax-county-library/comment-page-1/#comment-65796 David Rothman Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:49:09 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5096#comment-65796 Which is <em>worse</em> than the Adobe option? Hardly, Branko. Mobipocket, as evil as it is, can be a pleasure to use compared to Adobe. Along with Microsoft, Adobe may carry off the honors among the majors for having the most loathsome DRM. Usual IMHO disclaimer. Thanks. David Which is worse than the Adobe option? Hardly, Branko. Mobipocket, as evil as it is, can be a pleasure to use compared to Adobe. Along with Microsoft, Adobe may carry off the honors among the majors for having the most loathsome DRM. Usual IMHO disclaimer. Thanks. David

]]> By: Branko Collin http://www.teleread.com/library/tower-of-ebabel-horrors-at-fairfax-county-library/comment-page-1/#comment-65795 Branko Collin Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:45:10 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5096#comment-65795 "<i>the fault of the ill-managed e-book industry, not FCPL</i>" Er, no, the fault of the FCPL. They <b>chose</b> to go with the Mobipocket option. “the fault of the ill-managed e-book industry, not FCPL”

Er, no, the fault of the FCPL. They chose to go with the Mobipocket option.

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