Is There an eKoran, yet?
A few weeks ago, I whined about J.K. Rowling‘s constant refusal to distribute her Harry Potter books in the e-book format. The e-book formats allows me more freedom to read where it couldn’t be done before. the back-light allows for reading in a darken room; if you share a bedroom you don’t need to keep a lamp on thus preventing your partner from sleeping; before one had to use two hands but now, with any handheld device you can hold the book in the palm of your hand and turn the page with a free finger. I use several e-readers: eReader, MS-Word, MS-Reader, Adobe Reader, and now I added Mobipocket Reader. Although our fellow blogger here at Town Hall, Jeff Grace (yet to post) suggested it, I didn’t care for the old Mobipocket readers. They were too propitious toward sales of their e-books and the interface of their reader was too ugly.
It wasn’t until I got my Blackberry smart-phone I accepted the new Mobipocket Reader which allows me to send e-books to my mobile. Mobipocket Reader is the only program to run on the Blackberry — at least, so far it is the only program. This program reduce the 8mb 20070827.pdf to half it size into 20070827.prc so that I can read digitally the latest National Review magazine. The islamist radicals will presumedly find some verse in the Koran forbidding the Koran in an e-book format, or, the non-muslims holding a smart-phone which contains eKoran.
It is written: it is unclean to use the left hand and the right hand together on the Blackberry. Only the right hand may touch the cell phone.
You should know this, Dean. Even camel-mounted keyboards can be unclean, for multiple reasons. Also, sand is hell for most electronic devices.