Eric Lee: Hooked on ebooks

15-April-2004

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[ ICT and learning , politics/uk ]

Not sure quite what category this comes into - in fact I need to rethink the categories on this blog.

But an interesting article for a couple of reasons. Eric is pushing the use of handhelds for books. I am intrigued by the potential of handhelds - but having had a couple over the years have never really used them. The keyboards always get on my nerves. But I suppose for reading a book you do not need to use the keyboard much. Secondly, I am not so sure I can get used to reading on a screen - but I could give it a go.

But the main point to his blog entry is the idea of a Left Book Club in electronic form. I think that is an idea with tremendous potential. Not just to get better circulation for the more well known socialist writers like Chomsky - but for opening up the potential for publishing and sharing ideas to a much wider range of contributers. Of course the web does that. but the web is an uncomfortable media for reading longer text contributions.

Books (and shorter publications) available on handhelds could open up a whole new vista for democtratic and socialist debate .


Graham Attwell; 15-April-2004 06:01:00; forum (0) help

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