Apple pen-tablet plan revives Newtonian handwriting
ebooks
I want an ebook reader, true enough. But one that does not tie me to buying books from the hardware vendor.
And, like paper books, allows me to remove it from my reader and give it away to a friend. Or to Oxfam to sell for charity.
Or, like paper text books, allows me to sell them second hand at the end of the year/course to the next bunch of hopefulls
And which, when copyright expires, allows anyone to read it, copy it, archive it.
The obvious solution is to put the books on tiny memory slips, like microSD, and give the reader half a dozen slots and a pocket on the back to keep a few hundred more in. Such memory slips could be read-only, and not available blank, if the trade want to control piracy. I'd be happy with that, as long as encryption was an ISO standard and not proprietary to one supplier.
