Almost any work of fiction that I want to read is available in a small portable paperback format. Technical books are the problem: too big, fat and heavy. I would love to have them small and portable. I know that many are available in electronic form, but there isn't a single good electronic book reader device on the market. Cheap Laptops are too big and small light laptops are too expensive. Besides, a laptop is overkill if all I want to do is read a book. PDA screens are too small. When someone finally comes out with a light inexpensive e-book reader, with a screen as large and readable as a good quality paperback - I'll buy. If it can do double duty as a PDA - all the better.
Herod
· 3 years ago
Your most important book, came with an electronic book of Mr. Kytes expert one-on-one oracle (8i) edition.
Hopefully the next book will have an electronic version of Expert Oracle DB architecture.
I have the printed copy of 1on1 and Expert Oracle DB Arch. But since I purchased the new one, the printed copy of 1on1 as stayed on the shelf in favour of the electronic version. This brings up another problem with electronic books. The electronic version of 1on1 on the CD is horrible as electronic books go, pages numbers don't correspond, no clickable chapters or index entries. Appears to have been done with a low quality freeware PDF creator. No slight to Mr. Kyte here, absolutely nothing he could have done.
Both are amazing books, and I have been poking around for another copy of 1on1 because my copy is dog eared, worn out and has so many sticky notes marking pages sticking out of it, my daughter calls in "Father's Rainbow Book"
I personally read technical books on paper, and personal books on my PDA or laptop. There are very view personal reading books now that are not electronic. I have shelves and shelves of books. Yet, shelves and shelves of books fit onto my PDA and I have them with me most of the time.
Peter Boughton
· 3 years ago
When you buy a book, most of the time you get a CD of the book in PDF format.
When someone finally comes out with a light inexpensive e-book reader, with a screen as large and readable as a good quality paperback - I’ll buy. Sony Reader
Abby
· 3 years ago
"When you buy a book, most of the time you get a CD of the book in PDF format." Haven't seen that either, but you can buy a lot of digital ebooks nowadays online. A lot of informational books are actually only sold as ebooks... And it might be just me, but I hate having to stare and read through a book of 100-200pages on my computer monitor.
Sony is currently selling a digital ebook reader for +- $350 making it pretty interesting offer. (Haven't bought one yet myself though.) Philips (iRex devision) is also working on a new toy called the iLiad. Comes with an internet connection (so you can get the newspaper every morning on your pad), but it's a bid on the expensive side at $810.
Can't wait to see what will be available in the coming years :)
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Almost any work of fiction that I want to read is available in a small portable paperback format. Technical books are the problem: too big, fat and heavy. I would love to have them small and portable. I know that many are available in electronic form, but there isn't a single good electronic book reader device on the market. Cheap Laptops are too big and small light laptops are too expensive. Besides, a laptop is overkill if all I want to do is read a book. PDA screens are too small. When someone finally comes out with a light inexpensive e-book reader, with a screen as large and readable as a good quality paperback - I'll buy. If it can do double duty as a PDA - all the better.
Your most important book, came with an electronic book of Mr. Kytes expert one-on-one oracle (8i) edition.
Hopefully the next book will have an electronic version of Expert Oracle DB architecture.
I have the printed copy of 1on1 and Expert Oracle DB Arch. But since I purchased the new one, the printed copy of 1on1 as stayed on the shelf in favour of the electronic version. This brings up another problem with electronic books. The electronic version of 1on1 on the CD is horrible as electronic books go, pages numbers don't correspond, no clickable chapters or index entries. Appears to have been done with a low quality freeware PDF creator. No slight to Mr. Kyte here, absolutely nothing he could have done.
Both are amazing books, and I have been poking around for another copy of 1on1 because my copy is dog eared, worn out and has so many sticky notes marking pages sticking out of it, my daughter calls in "Father's Rainbow Book"
I personally read technical books on paper, and personal books on my PDA or laptop. There are very view personal reading books now that are not electronic. I have shelves and shelves of books. Yet, shelves and shelves of books fit onto my PDA and I have them with me most of the time.
When you buy a book, most of the time you get a CD of the book in PDF format.
Eh? I've never bought/seen a book like that?
E-books getting there:
HP
When someone finally comes out with a light inexpensive e-book reader, with a screen as large and readable as a good quality paperback - I’ll buy.
Sony Reader
"When you buy a book, most of the time you get a CD of the book in PDF format."
Haven't seen that either, but you can buy a lot of digital ebooks nowadays
online. A lot of informational books are actually only sold as ebooks...
And it might be just me, but I hate having to stare and read through a book of
100-200pages on my computer monitor.
Sony is currently selling a digital ebook reader for +- $350 making it pretty
interesting offer. (Haven't bought one yet myself though.)
Philips (iRex devision) is also working on a new toy called the iLiad. Comes
with an internet connection (so you can get the newspaper every morning on
your pad), but it's a bid on the expensive side at $810.
Can't wait to see what will be available in the coming years :)