In a message dated 5/18/2005 5:58:35 AM Mountain Daylight Time, rvijay07@myway.com writes:
stay away from ebooks as they are not good for eyes. So as a NEWBIE, I just wanted to know more in this regard from those with more experience.
I bought a Rocket ebook reader about seven years ago. I bought it because we were trying to set up an epublishing company, and I had to have the Rocket to check how everything looked. As it happened, that particular company fell through. But I fell in love with the Rocket about 3 seconds after I took it out of the book. For years one of my major fears has been that it would expire before I do. Last winter EBookWise, a branch of FictionWise, came out with the FictionWise 1500. It is totally compatable with Rocket and with several other formats, including plain text and Word. So now I have two ebook readers and feel safer. I NEVER read treebooks in bed anymore. With a dedicated ebook reader you can read with the room light off. You can turn around however you want to and you can turn pages by pushing a button; you can set the machine so that you can push the button with your right hand or with your left hand. I'm to the point now that I'd really rather read an old ebook than a new treebook, unless the treebook is one that I particularly want to read or it has a lot of illustrations, as both Rocket and 1500 are bad with illustrations. But with the 1500 you can buy even bestsellers and read them. If you pay a little more money you can join the FictionWise library and check out books. You can't keep them overdue because they quit working when they're due. I love ebooks. I REALLY REALLY REALLY love ebooks. Once upon a time we were out travelling and my husband suddenly decided he absolutely had to stop and write a poem. Now, my husband is one of those really strange guys who are REAL poets, so his stopping to write a poem didn't mean fifteen minutes. It meant about four hours--and I HADN'T TAKEN A BOOK WITH ME! I spent all that time wandering around the truckstop and reading a small road atlas which was the only thing I could buy at the truckstop to read. Now I do not leave the house without 50 books in my purse (Rocket) or 250 books in my purse (1500)--and I have a very small purse. I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY love ebooks. As for eyes, mine are bad because I'm 61 and have spent a large portion of my life outdoors in the South or in the Rocky Mountains without sunglasses (cataracts) and because I have bad genes (corneal dystrophy). But the only way ebooks could hurt your eyes would be if you forget to blink. In that case, use some eyedrops and then return to the book. Oh yes--I now have that epublishing company. I had thought I could do four books a month and am averaging two, but that's okay. IT'S MINE! Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!