jim said:
>   You assume the reader has a personal computer. 

yes i do.

and i consider the iphone to be a computer. 
(it has a chip inside it, you know.)

even the kindle has a computer chip inside it.
it's just too bad that you can't program for it.
of course, even if amazon keeps castrating
the kindle, it's entirely possible they would
put a reader-program on the thing which
was capable of rending z.m.l. beautifully...


>   Some do not.

if you don't have a computer, then i simply
can't tell you how you would use an e-book.


>   More importantly, many
>   do not at that point in time when they decide
>   they want to choose a new book to read,
>   such as while sitting at an airport
>   waiting for the plane to take off.

paper books remain delightful, in my eyes...

***

jim, you seem to want to argue about all these
unimportant things...  what about those italics?

-bowerbird