[LINK] The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age

Jan Whitaker jwhit at melbpc.org.au
Thu Feb 5 10:02:02 AEDT 2009


At 09:48 AM 5/02/2009, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:

>I still enjoy reading the Weekend Australian on a Saturday morning. Though for
>news I am fast becoming an RSS Feed Junkie.

Excellent example. I just added an rss reader plugin to Firefox 
called Brief 1.2. Changed my whole use of Firefox. I used to leave 
open all these tabs so I wouldn't miss anything. Now I just open that 
rss reader and find what new posts there are. It's cut my Firefox 
memory usage in half as a result.

I think it is important to distinguish the size and type of what is 
being read. I can manage short stories and articles quite easily on a 
computer screen. Not sure I would want to do even that on a 'phone' 
screen unless it was one of the new touchscreen types. My mobile is 
an old nokia without all the bells and whistles. But my laptop and 
desktop screen are different animals. I have noticed that my eyes are 
pretty much shot by the middle of the day, though, after being on the 
screen. And by night time, I have difficulty focusing on the telly.

Jan



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