A Matter of Contents

A Matter of Contents
2005.10.22 6:10

Technically speaking now we can carry all the libraries combined in our hands. The problem we will face is a matter of contents. Still many great works are protected under the copyright law or the right of intellectual property, and restricted to be written down freely in the Internet.
We can get access to tens of thousands of kinds of scribles in this revolutionary instrument, if we can freely read whole paragraph of 'War and Peace', how fantastic! It also helps us save money to spend for buying books. I used to read tens of hundreds of books lent in a library, but it cost none. To buy books is one thing and to get information is another. I was unable to be such a great writer if I had to pay for reading books in a library.
Internet ought to contain the library -collections of contents, lots of classics we ought to read. Not just for slashdot.
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Project Guttenberg(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.10.22 6:29 (#13848137) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.11.09 6:05)
Is the original of this- dealing with works whose copyrights have expired (I think War And Peace is in there- somewhere). A more modern version, coming soon to an internet enabled palmtop or phone near you, is Google Books and Yahoo Books. The companies are in competition and currently making deals with publishers for out of print copyrighted works- in exchange for providing hit counts and locations of people interested in the books, which could lead to print on demand and new runs for some books that have been unavailable for years; in return for you being able to search huge libraries. Googlezon, here we come! [robinsloan.com]
--If you don't like the reaction- don't do the action. Isaac Newton applied to ethics.
Re:Project Guttenberg(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.24 2:11 (#13858364) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2005.11.09 4:59)
Probably they would start to store the classical works whose copyrights were already expired, they will not face conspicuous problems for their project on this. The matter is whether they will be able to store the contents currently someone holds their copyright. Some will oppose and others say welcome, that depends. Bestseller writers will raise some questions if their works were relocated in Google libraries without their permissions, but I don't believe Google will do such things without permission of original writers.
By and large this project will complete soon. And even those who opposed this project would turn to publish their works in the Internet soon. In my prediction, a history of books in paper will be ended before long. Within two or three years people will prefer to carry a w-ZERO 3 (the name of the new product) and we would be considered one of the greatest writers of our times.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters[ Parent ]
Not quite there yet(Score:2)
by BandwidthHog (257320) <whatwouldbryando@ironicallyenough.com> on 2005.10.22 11:22 (#13850119) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelifeofbryan/ Last Journal: 2005.10.03 2:05)
I’ve got the U.S. Constitution on my iPod, and it’s great for the novelty value, as well as for use in arguments over legal issues. But such small screens just don’t lend themselves to actually reading something. For reference purposes though, they’re great. I think once a device better suited to that usage hits the market in large numbers, we’ll see an explosion in that area.
--TRUE/FALSE: Those who believe Biblical End Times to be a good thing should have a hand in foreign policy.
Re:Not quite there yet(Score:2)
by kesuki (321456) on 2005.10.22 12:27 (#13850430) (http://kesuki.deviantart.com/ Last Journal: 2005.11.07 4:35)
the technology for the display is here today. they can fabricate a 'memory' LCD that 'remembers' the last image sent to it (the technology was intended for 'digital paper' but that concept has yet to be a relaity, however 'memory' LCD laptop displays Are going into production for laptops designed for LDC children to 'learn' with, in place of 'textbooks' they get a laptop capapble of replacing hundreds of textbooks ;)so yeah, a display that was like a notepad, required power only when 'turning' pages... well we have the technology for that today, and it could be built and markted for under $200 apparently, but it still wouldn't be the same as havign a real book in one's hand, and even if it was durable enough to be used for travel, it would still not be so desireable as to be worth $200 to most people, unless it also supported some basic computing abilities, which would either drive up the price, or limit the users it would 'interest'still, online books are a natural step in the evolution of print media.
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Re:Not quite there yet(Score:2)
by Allen Zadr (767458) * <`Allen.Zadr' `at' `gmail.com'> on 2005.10.23 1:20 (#13852669) (Last Journal: 2005.11.06 10:08)
I've read three books on my Palm IIIc, and didn't have a problem with the screen size. It only takes two pages to get used to the scroll distance, and your fine. The iPod has a smaller screen (less than half), and I'm quite amazed it didn't grow any for the new Video version.
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Re:Not quite there yet(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.24 2:18 (#13858396) (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11854854 Last Journal: 2005.11.09 4:59)
I think once a device better suited to that usage hits the market in large numbers, we'll see an explosion in that area.
That's it, that's it. That's IT.
--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters[ Parent ]