Woot!

[ellarien]

I just bought my very first e-book -- a Mobi version of LOTR, from Harper Collins e-books. Don't ask me for a link there -- the website navigation is idiosyncratic -- but it worked, and it's sitting on my Palm. Thanks to kate_nepveu over at tor.com for the heads-up! Now perhaps that reread I've been hankering after can actually happen, with the book always in my purse and not taking up any space there.

LOTR and Voyage are the things I make exceptions for, the things that lure me into new technologies. (My first VCR. Two cable TV subscriptions and an upgrade to digital cable. A copy of the books in each city I call home. DVDs, and then a DVD player so I could watch them in comfort ...)

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[annafdd.livejournal.com]

I saw it at the London Book Fair, displayed on a Sony reader.

There was a time when I went nowhere without at least one of the three books. Granted, I was ten at the time, but still. I'd have loved it back then... alas, I don't seem to have transitional objects in the shape of books any longer.

[ellarien]

I was tickled to see the G-rune faithfully reproduced on my Palm screen. I wonder whether the doors of Moria will show up too. It's funny seeing the familiar words in that format, but the immersion seems to work, with only a little extra effort to ignore the medium.

[peoppenheimer]

I am reading lots of books and other documents on my adorable overhyped phone. It's always in my pocket.

Once upon a time you could have given me almost any sequence of words from LOTR and I would have been able to place it in its context. Alas, I have become more critically aware over the years (and my memory is not as good anymore).

[ellarien]

Critical awareness can get in the way. I was reading my e-LOTR this morning on the bus; unfortunately the previous thing I read on the PDA was something I was supposed to be beta-reading, and the nitpicking mindset wouldn't quite switch off. I only reread it every few years these days, instead of two or three times a year, so it's easier to spot where the infodumping isn't quite as well-ordered as it might be.