Just Thoughts

eReaders:

Nope I still don’t have one I may have one by the end of this year.

With old traditional way books, you own a copy, it’s physical, you sense it, but imagine if you wanted to carry around multiple books, if you were travelling or just about to finish a book and need another one for the ride, eReaders come in  handy.

If you think of eReaders and their impact on the environment, we do save trees by saving papers on books but don’t we contribute to global warming with electricity needed to charge it, heat emitted from it and electronic waste. Even if it small, but it is accumulative, isn’t it?

Anyway another thing popped into my sleepless head, what if I wanted an author to sign a copy of his/her book, how is that possible on an electronic copy! Till this moment, I am not aware of any eReader with an input device that one can scribble down something on a digital page. It’d would be awesome if eReaders, had cameras and I then can take a photo with the author and make it a page within the book and make him/her sign it, if it were possible. How about the iPad what does it offer, let’s not go there I take that back, cameras in eReaders, I don’t like it when too much unrelated functionality is shoved down products.

On a different note:

Don’t you agree that sometimes IT people exaggerate to the extend of ending the world at every IT hiccup.

“Well if this goes wrong, it is going to have disastrous consequences, the world will end”

“What ?? Will it make the sun and earth collide, will the earth stop rotating and swallow itself!!!”

“ahhh, no but the system will slow down, you won’t be able to play for a couple of minutes”

“!!!! Pick up and the phone, LIFE is calling you .. GO and get it”

This is not “The Matrix”, we do no live in a simulated reality, sometimes I’d rather we do, we’d solve all our problems by simply restarting the world, that is if it were built on windows infrastructure