[bookport] Re: bookport suggestion
- From: "Cliff & Tina" <cfry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:08:14 -0500
Seems like we had about fifty messages on this subject a couple months ago.
Everyone has an opinion. Let's move on to helping one another.
Cliff
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Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 5:40 PM
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Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport suggestion
This is getting into the realm of personal preferences. I fully
understand the wish to have an 'anything' box. Actually, we already have
them - they're called computers - and some of them have gotten quite small.
PDAs, Blackberries, cel phones - these devices are all blurring the formerly
sharp edges boundaries of technology as they take over functions that were
once confined to other devices. There are PDA celphones that include
calculators, can read email and on and on.
But my bookport is complicated enough for me. I would prefer to
maintain its boundaries tightly coiled around the act of reading and adding
notes related to my reading. Of course it would be good to know when my
notes were made so th at adds a calendar and you might as well add an alarm
and a calculator doesn't add *that much* to the firmware... but...
I confess that though I'm a gadget guy, I don't really like kitchen
sinking things. I will never use more than 5% of MS Words capabilities, the
same with Excel. I don't need all that extra stuff, but understand that it
would be a lot of work to make customized versions of all this software.
But just having it all there makes it more complicated, increases the
learning curve.
That's me. I also know plenty of gearheads who love swiss-army-knife
gizmos and can figure it all out in a twinkling. They are one with their
machines and I stand in awe before them - before I get distracted by
something equally as awesome - like my Bookport!
So, what the heck, blue sky away, y'all! Creativity will out and
besides, it's fun to dream about where the Bookport could take us to next.
Hey - how about putting an electric razor on the bottom end of the
BP?
Dan
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