As frankps sees the world!

It’s been a long time since I have been writing about the Cybook and ebook readers in general. I am still the same great fan of these devices, if not bigger. I have read more or less the whole Golden Compass triology on the Cybook, and my eyes are so relaxed. The screen is so much better to read on then a LCD screen. It is truely the closest you can get to paper. My New Year’s Eve resolution was to not print paper for personal reading this year, I haven’t managed that […] Continue reading →

Yesterday I could finally pick up a Cybook at the post office, and today I visited Mobipocket: Product Type : eBook(s) Logon to your account to redownload and view the history of purchased products : http://www.mobipocket.com/en/mymobi/mymobipocket.asp The Da Vinci Code: A Novel : 6.99 USD Eragon : 9.95 USD The Amber Spyglass : 3.99 USD The Golden Compass : 3.99 USD The Subtle Knife : 3.99 USD Eldest : 12.95 USD ——————————— […] Continue reading →

Yesterday I got my hands on a eBook reader, and I got mighty impressed. The Bookeen Cybook ePaper has the perfect size and is therefor easy to carry around. As I work on computers all day long, and have to stare on back lit LCD displays, I have been quite skeptical to eBooks. In fact, if the document I am to read is longer then 2-3 A4 pages, I prefer to print it out. I swear that I could feel my eyes relaxing when I read on the Cybook, it is the closest thing to reading paper that I have [...] […] Continue reading →

Last week I attended a lecture held by Bent Sofus Tranøy, a researcher at Department of Political Science, UiO. He hit me over and over again with his arguments, and it is not often I have agreed more to what a person has to say. He is this year’s winner of the Norwegian litterature price Brageprisen, for the book Markedets makt over sinnene. One of the topics he discuss in the book, is the so called free market and how consumers for various reasons don’t go for the cheapest […] Continue reading →

I am doing something as rare as reading a book in Norwegian. Friends of me would know that I don’t enjoy reading much. This is as actually only the second book of the year, and the first one that I read in Norwegian in years. Døren – Eng. title: The Door – is a novel written by the Hungarian writer Magda Szabó back in 1987, but it only this year got published in Norwegian (an English version was published in 1995). I read a recommendation (to short to be a review) of the […] Continue reading →