[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
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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