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January 20, 2006
TT: A hundred books in your pocket
I'm not really here. I'm on my way back from New Haven, where I saw two plays, visited the Yale Art Gallery and ate pizza (shhh!). Our Girl has kindly posted today's items for me.I'll be flying to Chicago tomorrow afternoon to meet the lady in question, mere hours after my biweekly "Sightings" column is published in the "Pursuits" section of the Saturday Wall Street Journal. Here's a little taste:
The e-book is back. So are the technophobes who swear it'll never catch on. They were right last time, and they might be right this time, too. Sooner or later, though, they'll be wrong--and when they are, your life will change.
The word "e-book" is short for "electronic book." The concept isn't new--the complete texts of countless classics have long been available on the Web in digitized form. (Seventeen thousand of them can be downloaded for free at www.gutenberg.org.) The catch is that until now, there hasn't been a user-friendly way to read e-books. Few people enjoy reading book-length documents on a conventional computer screen, and though hand-held e-book readers went on the market six years ago, they were insufficiently convenient to use and failed to interest the book-buying public.
Now Sony has announced plans to market a paperback-sized e-book reader that makes use of E Ink, a new display technology...
As always, there's lots more where that came from. See for yourself--buy a copy of tomorrow's Journal and look me up.
Posted January 20, 2006 12:00 PM
