Saturday, May 12, 2007

Watch out newspapers


One of the problems that has prevented the phasing out of printed material has been the lack of suitable technology to replace it.

The beauty of reading a paper,a periodical or a book is its portability,its accessabilty and its cost.

Lugging a laptop etc around with you,connecting and simply being able to read it are all reasons I prefer to carry books and newspapers around with me.

Perhaps though change is on the way.G2 carries a brilliant article from Andrew Marr entitled Curling up with a good ebook,superb journalist and self confessed luddite .

Andrew reviews the latest portable technology.The cost is still a little prohibitative at £449 + vat as is the cost of downloading the written word.

In terms of portabilty and accessabilty,things though are heading in the right direction

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