Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 21/01/2004 22:38, Karl Randolph wrote:

> This is a little off topic, but the tie in is the unicode reading of text. It 
> is only a matter of time before people read more comfortably on screen than 
> on paper. CRTs are the hardest to read, but I find a LCD screen often easier 
> to read (at least the ones that I worked with) than paper under flourescent 
> lighting, and I hear that prototypes of the LED screens are even better. Most 
> of the printing I see is for people who did not grow up with computers. I 
> just asked my 16 year old son, and he claims he prefers to read text on 
> screen. He wishes his college textbooks were electronic.
>
> So electronic presentation on screen will be read, even long documents. 
> That’s how I read Tanakh.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>
>  
Agreed. I am waiting for an electronic novel which I can take to bed 
with me.

In case some people think I am being sarcastic, I am not. I am thinking 
of something like a PDA but with a screen as big as its body, the size 
of a small book page and very high quality, and a user interface 
allowing pages to be "turned" very easily, plus a way to upload into it 
e-books (and probably everything else in a good PDA). That should be 
almost as easy to read as a book, even in bed.

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Peter Kirk
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