I am sober! Ask me anything!

[East Coast Hustle]

May I ask what the advantage of a color e-reader is? I mean, if you aren't into art books.

Can be used for surfing the web a la a cheapo tablet PC, allows you to read graphic novels or anything with color illustrations, including magazines (you can subscribe to most popular titles), sunday newspaper from your hometown, etc.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

May I ask what the advantage of a color e-reader is? I mean, if you aren't into art books.

Can be used for surfing the web a la a cheapo tablet PC, allows you to read graphic novels or anything with color illustrations, including magazines (you can subscribe to most popular titles), sunday newspaper from your hometown, etc.

The websurfing seems most likely something I'd use... though most of the sites I care about would be just as good in black and white since for the most part all I give a shit about is text.

Do you have to pay for a web subscription or can you use any old wifi?

[East Coast Hustle]

Any wi-fi signal (unsecured or that you have the PW to), no subscription. The browser on the B&W version is very basic and really a pain in the ass to use. For $50 extra you can get a G3 version with wi-fi AND free cellular access anywhere in the world there's a signal.

IOW, with the color version's browser, wikipedia/wikitravel, googlemaps, and craigslist, you essentially have the Hitchhiker's Guide To Earth.

[Jasper]

I just remembered being in high school, and really wanting something that did what the HHGTTG was capable of.

And now I have a series of toys that can do stuff like that, and I consider it normal.

Woo, spine tingles.  Future shocked there a little bit.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I just remembered being in high school, and really wanting something that did what the HHGTTG was capable of.

And now I have a series of toys that can do stuff like that, and I consider it normal.

Woo, spine tingles.  Future shocked there a little bit.

I feel that way every time I whip out my phone.

[Jasper]

At some point in the next decade I may be forced to forget the past so that I can go a single moment without reeling at the bizarre amount of technological power all over.

You know what it's like?  The Dark Ages, but in reverse.  There's so much information flying around, so much computational power, so much knowledge hidden amongst noise, that you can hardly see anything. 

The Blindingly Bright Ages.  That's what we're in.

[Triple Zero]

May I ask what the advantage of a color e-reader is? I mean, if you aren't into art books.

Can be used for surfing the web a la a cheapo tablet PC, allows you to read graphic novels or anything with color illustrations, including magazines (you can subscribe to most popular titles), sunday newspaper from your hometown, etc.

Graphic novels (and comics) sound like a very important advantage.

Cheapo tablet PC is nice, but if it was that alone I'd rather have a netbook, which is basically a tablet PC that's not overpriced and has a keyboard Just not completely sold on tablets over netbooks, yet.

Still, that Color Nook sounds damn sweet and I shall have to go and look into it.

[Luna]

May I ask what the advantage of a color e-reader is? I mean, if you aren't into art books.

I can see it for graphic novels.  You can get magazines and newspaper subscriptions, give it time and some bright monkey at Marvel or DC will start publishing monthly comics for e-readers (if they haven't already; I have not researched). 

Reading .pdf files, like some RPG books I have in that format.

[Freeky]

At some point in the next decade I may be forced to forget the past so that I can go a single moment without reeling at the bizarre amount of technological power all over.

You know what it's like?  The Dark Ages, but in reverse.  There's so much information flying around, so much computational power, so much knowledge hidden amongst noise, that you can hardly see anything. 

The Blindingly Bright Ages.  That's what we're in.

Very well put.

[Kai]

At some point in the next decade I may be forced to forget the past so that I can go a single moment without reeling at the bizarre amount of technological power all over.

You know what it's like?  The Dark Ages, but in reverse.  There's so much information flying around, so much computational power, so much knowledge hidden amongst noise, that you can hardly see anything. 

The Blindingly Bright Ages.  That's what we're in.

Sounds like time to get some shades.

[BadBeast]

At some point in the next decade I may be forced to forget the past so that I can go a single moment without reeling at the bizarre amount of technological power all over.

You know what it's like?  The Dark Ages, but in reverse.  There's so much information flying around, so much computational power, so much knowledge hidden amongst noise, that you can hardly see anything. 

The Blindingly Bright Ages.  That's what we're in.