The future is here.
Jun. 5th, 2008 06:48 am(The future is always here; it sneaks up on you while you're busy doing something else, and then one day you wake up and realize that it's not 1998 any more. What the heck just happened?)
The future is here. I've just realized that I've been avoiding reading a book (you may all gasp in horror now) -- and the reason is that the book is printed on paper. You know, instead of on electrons.
An author who's work I fairly consistently enjoy has sent me the latest book in a series that I definitely enjoy. It's well pre-publication (scheduled for 2009) and rather than sending an RTF (preferred) or HTML (very good) or plain text (fine) or even a PDF (blech; takes up too much processing time on my portable book readers) I got a sheaf of 8.5x11 pages. I suppose that had it arrived in trade-paper or mmpb format I wouldn't have had issues, but.
(I have a bunch of book entries to make, but have been backlogged with real work.)
The future is here. I've just realized that I've been avoiding reading a book (you may all gasp in horror now) -- and the reason is that the book is printed on paper. You know, instead of on electrons.
An author who's work I fairly consistently enjoy has sent me the latest book in a series that I definitely enjoy. It's well pre-publication (scheduled for 2009) and rather than sending an RTF (preferred) or HTML (very good) or plain text (fine) or even a PDF (blech; takes up too much processing time on my portable book readers) I got a sheaf of 8.5x11 pages. I suppose that had it arrived in trade-paper or mmpb format I wouldn't have had issues, but.
(I have a bunch of book entries to make, but have been backlogged with real work.)