"Tablets, e-book readers close book on ink-and-paper era"

[ghosthunter]

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GLENN CHAPMAN, AFP December 9, 2011 2:48pm

SAN FRANCISCO - Tablet computers and electronic readers promise to eventually close the book on the ink-and-paper era as they transform the way people browse magazines, check news or lose themselves in novels.

"It is only a matter of time before we stop killing trees and all publications become digital," Creative Strategies president and principal analyst Tim Bajarin told AFP.

Online retail giant Amazon made electronic readers mainstream with Kindle devices and Apple ignited insatiable demand for tablets ideal for devouring online content ranging from films to magazines and books....

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[Retz]

Tablet PC is the future of mobile computing.

[ghosthunter]

Tablet PC is the future of mobile computing.

I seriously doubt it. Have you seriously tried typing a lengthy business letter or an article to be published on a tablet? Although tablets will have a niche, notebook PCs will still be the future of mobile computing (and even home computing as well with more people using notebooks to replace desktop PCs).

[umi001]

E-readers are fantastically convenient devices - I carry hundreds of books in mine. While a lot of people while say that tablets can serve the same function, and offer more besides, the sunlight legibility and battery life (measured in weeks, not hours) offered by my Sony e-reader are capabilities not matched by any tablet. If you're not reading picture-heavy or layout dependent books, e-readers make so much more sense than a normal book.

[ghosthunter]

E-readers are fantastically convenient devices - I carry hundreds of books in mine. While a lot of people while say that tablets can serve the same function, and offer more besides, the sunlight legibility and battery life (measured in weeks, not hours) offered by my Sony e-reader are capabilities not matched by any tablet. If you're not reading picture-heavy or layout dependent books, e-readers make so much more sense than a normal book.

I also carry lots of magazines in my ultrabook (and formerly, in my netbooks).

Although limited to hours of battery life, a lightweight notebook PC is still a great way to have mobile computing flexibility.

[marg]

Whenever Im on a quick out of town trip, I just bring my iPAD. Its good enough for Reading Email and Internet purposes.

These days, laptop stays home more often.

[CVT]

E-readers are fantastically convenient devices - I carry hundreds of books in mine. While a lot of people while say that tablets can serve the same function, and offer more besides, the sunlight legibility and battery life (measured in weeks, not hours) offered by my Sony e-reader are capabilities not matched by any tablet. If you're not reading picture-heavy or layout dependent books, e-readers make so much more sense than a normal book.

Digital gluttony of the third kind....

First was music,- then movies, and then books.... Guilty your Honor....

14.5K:higop:

[vinj]

Whenever Im on a quick out of town trip, I just bring my iPAD. Its good enough for Reading Email and Internet purposes.

These days, laptop stays home more often.

Same here. We only bring the laptop when we have real, serious key crunching work to do... or if the kids don't want to surrender the Ipad to us.

[Monseratto]

A laptop can't beat a desktop in terms of versatility, a laptop can't beat a tablet in terms of mobility. Streaming and now the cloud makes the tablet more desirable...

[JohnM]

This:

[Retz]

I seriously doubt it. Have you seriously tried typing a lengthy business letter or an article to be published on a tablet? Although tablets will have a niche, notebook PCs will still be the future of mobile computing (and even home computing as well with more people using notebooks to replace desktop PCs).

I don't know sir GH, notebooks/laptops has been there for quite sometime now. Maybe they could come-up with a new design or technology on the "functionality" of tablets that could addressed one of the primary concern of tablet pc which is typing.

[Retz]

This:

yes, asus eee pad. this is a combination of both notebook and tablet. you get the functionality of a notebook and portability of a tablet.

[umi001]

Digital gluttony of the third kind....

First was music,- then movies, and then books.... Guilty your Honor....

14.5K:higop:

Well, I do tend to read a lot - one book a week (used to be every two to three days, but I've got two kids and a longer commute now ). I also tend to re-read books, sometimes multiple times, and I don't mind long series, so whenever a new one comes out, I usually read every book from the start, so that characters and storylines are fresh in my mind when I get to the new release.

[ghosthunter]

yes, asus eee pad. this is a combination of both notebook and tablet. you get the functionality of a notebook and portability of a tablet.

Downside, it's about the same price as a full blown notebook PC. Yet the specs are not even par with a notebook PC (processor speed, memory, storage, ports).

[Retz]

Downside, it's about the same price as a full blown notebook PC. Yet the specs are not even par with a notebook PC (processor speed, memory, storage, ports).

correct sir GH, that is the limitation right now of a tablet pc. I hope there's a thread on different tablet pc comparison.

[Retz]

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Tablet now available.

[CVT]

This:

Much more like it.... Nice for my ASUS notebook, which has a Kindle software.....

14.7K:cow:

[oliver1013]

SAbi ni misis may nag pa bid na school last year ng sangkaterbang tablets for their students sa company nila. Parang ito na nga ang direksiyon.

[ghosthunter]

SAbi ni misis may nag pa bid na school last year ng sangkaterbang tablets for their students sa company nila. Parang ito na nga ang direksiyon.

Some schools are using tablets as gimmick to attract more students to enroll.

Only time will tell if the move to tablets instead of books would be better or as a gimmick.

[pop3corn]

the tablets will never gonna replace the PC in terms of docs and multimedia processing and other processor intensive manipulating applications.

I used to read books on a Nook e-ink device (a year ago, it's just too damned slow) but soon upgraded to Ipad. now, i don't read only ebooks but I read magazines as well. even top gear philippines has an app for the ipad. ba't pa ako bibili ng magazine na printed heheh. have you seen the Newstand app of IOS, andun na lahat Popular Science/ Mechanics, Time, Automobiles, C Magazine, Men's health, bawas lang sa credit card and you get a subscription instantly downloaded on your ipad. even News like CNN, BBC, MsNBC can tweet you everyday on the Ipad and content is displayed instantly.


the good thing is google's cloud service and even apple's icloud is the best thing that will ever happen to touch devices.

sometimes, when I read books on the iPad at home, and i stopped at page 78, I can continue reading at page 79 on my iphone while i'm out. . ang galing ng synchronization capabilities ng icloud (google has the same service ata as told to me by Android users)


basta eto lang napansin, ko before I leave home with my laptop and phone. now my laptop is my desktop (pambahay na lang), and my ipad is my new laptop, and my phone an extension of my ipad pag sa lugar na matao and kailangan maliit lang ang dala.


the Ipad will replace the paperbacks. that I'm sure of. Ipad is now a stand-alone device bec. IOS 5.0 is not dependent on a PC anymore.

ang isa pa nakatindig balahibo is somehow youngsters ages 2 onward can easily adapt to the Ipad Touchscreen, it won't be long and this generation will be drawing on the Ipad and not on paper / regular canvass (as is to fine arts students)


i used to believe that touch technology is just hype pero nang nakita ko ito and its applications sa art. i'm sure Ipad is the next big thing ... capacitive touch coupled with 3 axis gyro as well as other sensors of idevices, grabeh!