iDontactuallyevencare
Just finished reading Rich Johnson's article on the iPad over at the Beat, which did a good job at raising some fairly solid points about a subject I generally don't spend much of my time thinking about. Perhaps most notably:
"Its purpose is to allow you to carry around hundreds of books. But, I can only read one book at a time"
It's true that something like the iPod makes a lot of sense when I remember the days of going to school with a CD case in my backpack because I didn't know what music I might be in the mood for listening to over the course of a given day. But it's not exactly like I'm going to be putting my library of books on "shuffle" any time soon. And though it might help to lighten my travel load a bit if I want to take a couple different books on vacation or something, it also means that I would be traveling instead with an expensive, potentially breakable, electronic device.
Anyway, Johnson later goes on to point out some of the potential uses this sort of device might have in regards to somewhat more disposable media like mass market single-issue comic books (and likely webcomics as well), so don't write it off entirely yet. I think it's just that The-End-To-Print-As-We-Know-It isn't quite right around the corner, at least for the moment. Whatever.
"Its purpose is to allow you to carry around hundreds of books. But, I can only read one book at a time"
It's true that something like the iPod makes a lot of sense when I remember the days of going to school with a CD case in my backpack because I didn't know what music I might be in the mood for listening to over the course of a given day. But it's not exactly like I'm going to be putting my library of books on "shuffle" any time soon. And though it might help to lighten my travel load a bit if I want to take a couple different books on vacation or something, it also means that I would be traveling instead with an expensive, potentially breakable, electronic device.
Anyway, Johnson later goes on to point out some of the potential uses this sort of device might have in regards to somewhat more disposable media like mass market single-issue comic books (and likely webcomics as well), so don't write it off entirely yet. I think it's just that The-End-To-Print-As-We-Know-It isn't quite right around the corner, at least for the moment. Whatever.