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e-readers are amazing!
Ikrik:
Honestly I'm completely impressed by how cheap these things have become. Sure, they're basically single-purpose devices but still, going from 400 dollars in 2007 to 139 now. They're getting better and cheaper, I am continually amazed by how awesome technology has become.
Also, getting public domain books has been the greatest thing in the world. I could potentially complain because I have no idea whether the translations of some of these are any good or not, but that would mean complaining about free books. I really wish this thing would arrive in the mail already, I'm so excited for it.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 01 Feb 2011, 08:11 ---How long are you going to save for?!.
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Don't rain on her parade, she looks so excited.
Barmymoo:
I'm going to save for?!. as long as it takes to afford it out of my wages (which will be like three weeks but whatever).
Scandanavian War Machine:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 01 Feb 2011, 17:35 ---Also, getting public domain books has been the greatest thing in the world. I could potentially complain because I have no idea whether the translations of some of these are any good or not, but that would mean complaining about free books.
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The Anna Karenina translation I was reading was pretty wonky at times. At least I think it was, I've never read any other versions so I have nothing to compare it to. Maybe that's how it was written.
The way the books are processed to digital form may have had something to do with it too though, if Hyperion is anything to go by.
nekowafer:
For the most part, when transferring books to digital form, the page is just scanned. A computer is the one "reading" everything, and transferring the type on the page to the type in the e-book. With no logical reasoning, it has no way to know that some letters don't actually make real English words. No one goes over these files if it's for a public domain book, which I find a little silly. But then again, that would involve time and money, and they'd no longer be free books.
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