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Wed, 20 Aug 2008

Ebooks are just toys for simple formats.

I listened so much pride words about how ebooks look and that they allow to replace the whole your library with single flash-drive.

It can not. It does not know about PDF and DJVU formats. Sony Ebook reader, Lbook V3, Amazon Kindle - all of them can see it as a picture at best. And it could be probably not that bad, but neither supports scrolling, so there is virtually no way to read PDF or DJVU formats there. The whole my library cotnains only that formats.

I naively thought that we live in the 21'th century, when we can flight faster than speed of sound everyday, look into the deepest corners of the universe, taste Mars' salt, search for Higgs boson and convert from any text representation format to another one. Obviously I was so mistaken...

Will use old-school paper books (I love it much more than electronic ones anyway) and printed stack of paper for various articles.

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