Comments on: Sony announces half a million public domain books for its E-Ink Reader

By: Tipa

Tipa — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:25:09 +0000

I downloaded a bunch of Google public domain books to my Sony Reader and — wow, I guess nobody looked at these files! FULL of scanning errors, garbled text…. This isn’t Sony’s fault. I don’t see how Google can proudly claim to be preserving our heritage by scanning old works if those old works are mangled.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:23:45 +0000

Okay, actually, am in the ebook store, there are some quality titles here.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:19:14 +0000

I wouldn’t buy a reader just for this. To be honest, if my eyes weren’t crappy, I doubt I would be interested at all.

By: mbp

mbp — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:57:53 +0000

No no no Kasul. If you just want a large inventory of books I can fix you up with a typewriter and a monkey to bang the keys. The investment of time and concentration into reading a book is considerable so we need to be choosy and having a large amount of random writings selected only on the basis that they are free does not make it any easier to be choosy.

By: Kasul

Kasul — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:07:41 +0000

Sony finally has their enormous inventory of books, and it looks like there’s another gadget on my wish list. :) Even if there is plenty of chaff in the selection there are sure to be some obscure gems in the haystack as well!