iPhone Reading Revolution?

This was done on an iphone? I don't really know what an iphone or an ipod are.

The iPhone and iPod are Apple Computer products. The iPhone is their all in one cell phone, handheld computer and digital music player. The iPod touch is almost like an iPhone, just without the cell phone function. Amazon created a Kindle ebook application for those two products that allows them to download and display the kindle ebook format they created.

Marie Pacha wrote:

How large (small) is the screen?

I was thinking the same thing. I need reading glasses these days and it seems like everyone in the world is using a smaller font than a few years ago. My eyes wish we'd return to a larger font!

The screen as I measured on a diagonal is about 3.5 inches by 2 inches. More importantly the screen is very readable and the fonts seem to be about 12 point.

DT, did you check out the latest featured members?

http://www.publishedauthors.org/Featured-Members-h1.htm

Thanks Shelagh. I need a new avatar.

I love size 12 font and higher! Thanks, DT.

Thanks for the update on the new technology stuff, DT. Maybe I will have to someday get an i-something!

Dear DT,
Today, the teacher of the Duette Elementary School came here to talk to me. She had read Wooffer to her classes and the school included Wooffer and I in their yearbook for 2008-2009. She was telling me that a person could put songs on itunes and they are sold to people who want to buy them for 99 cents. I wondered if a person who has their short stories recorded on audio, mp3 and cd, could post short stories on the itunes website. I have a lot to learn about this internet stuff. What do you think of this idea? Would it be feasable to post a chapter of your book there? Who looks at this stuff anyway and how do they find it.

Love,
Betty

Betty here are a couple of links with information to consider. One is on getting on iTunes and the other is on creating podcasts that can be downloaded directly from your website.


http://www.mixedcontent.com/music/2005/07/how-to-get-your-music-on-itunes/


http://radio.about.com/od/podcastin1/a/aa030805a.htm

dtpollard wrote:

Thanks Shelagh. I need a new avatar.

Did you click on the link to your page and did you read the responses to the page on the Featured Members Board?

http://www.publishedauthors.org/featured-members-f24/

Yes I did, and thanks to everyone for their responses.

Dick Stodghill wrote:

This was done on an iphone? I don't really know what an iphone or an ipod are.

Yet another daughter came in from Denver. She brought with her an iphone. I had no idea what it was. Yesterday, she photographed me with it. The damned thing worked. It does a lot of other things as well. In a pinch one can even make phone calls on it. She tells me I must buy one. I'm not convinced. I have a good camera. Why do I need a telephone that takes photos?

But Lane, it also makes grocery lists, plays music, keeps track of your appointments, gives directions for wherever you need to go, tells the time and temperature, allows you to surf the web, even post messages on this message board, sings you to sleep at night...

Ann

alj wrote:

sings you to sleep at night...Ann

I confess, Ann, you're tempting me. What a joy it would be to have a phone that sings.

But, Marie, it sings.

I wish it was 1946 again.

H'mm - maybe I'll have to rethink the year.

At the time you were born I was working as a TV and radio repairman man plus writing a sports column for a weekly paper. TV was still in its infancy so there were no remote controls. Many sets had rotary tuners that required some effort to turn from one channel to another. Must have been tough for old guys who had to get up from their chairs and then fight with the tuners. Then, like now, there wasn't much worth watching anyhow.

Dick Stodghill wrote:

At the time you were born I was working as a TV and radio repairman man...TV was still in its infancy so there were no remote controls.

My mother was a gadget person who purchased a television set in 1949 when there was little more to watch than test patterns. It was a Crosley portable with a ten-inch screen that must have weighed 500 pounds.

Dick and a few others will recall John Cameron Swayze (sp?) and the Camel Caravan on NBC, fifteen minutes of news (sort of) sponsored by Camel cigarettes. There was no video tape in those days and television news was inventing itself daily. Early on, still photographs were used to supplement stories. In time, they were replaced by 35mm film rented from companies like Fox Movietone, the folks responsible for theatre newsreels. There was no such thing as a live report or a talking head. Swayze's was the only voice heard.

Popular stories were battle ship launchings, baby contests, beauty pageants, and well-muscled men doing odd things. Controversial subjects were avoided. The program was, after all, a family show.

Radio was the dominant medium; television was considered a novelty with little future. Consequently, real news was gotten from radio and colleagues were critical, if not hostile, toward Swayze.

No matter. Swayze sat behind an ordinary office desk with a map of the world pasted on a wall behind him. He used a pointer to indicate hot spots around the globe. On the desk sat a pack of Camels and an ashtray sporting the Camel logo. Midway through the broadcast, Swayze announced that it was time for a "Camel break." At that, he removed a cigarette from the pack, lit it, and blew smoke at the bulky camera. For sixty seconds, he puffed on the cigarette and convinced Americans that their lives would be enriched by Camel's Turkish blend of tobaccos.

I wasn't influenced by Swayze; I was a Lucky Strike guy. Nevertheless, his profession looked interesting to me, so I spent thirty years in it.

W. Lane Rogers wrote:

No matter. Swayze sat behind an ordinary office desk with a map of the world pasted on a wall behind him. He used a pointer to indicate hot spots around the globe. On the desk sat a pack of Camels and an ashtray sporting the Camel logo. Midway through the broadcast, Swayze announced that it was time for a "Camel break." At that, he removed a cigarette from the pack, lit it, and blew smoke at the bulky camera. For sixty seconds, he puffed on the cigarette

Haha, this is priceless. I bet people would watch this today on YouTube for its retro value. I would. My earliest TV memories are of Bullwinkle and Rocky the Squirrel.

That guy who used to paint ...B.J. Something? He'd set up an easel and show kids how to draw a landscape.

H.R. Pufnstuff.

Read a book on a cell phone? Might work for some people but definately won't work for me. I don't own a cell phone and have no intention of getting one and besides when I'm reading a book, I personally perfer a traditional paper book to an electronic screen. E-books will continue to gain market share, but I hope paper books don't go away entirely. Paper books can't be accidently deleted and high quality paper will far outlast most electronic storage media. I do enjoy the benefits of computers and electronics, but I still havn't fully bought into the digital revolution.

Life expectancy comparison:

Cell Phone: 18 months
Memory Card/Flash Memory: 10 years
Quality Burned CD-R: 20 years
Archivial Grade Paper: 300 years
High Quality Archivial Parchment: 500 years

Yah, but do you hold onto your books for 300 years? lol. Actually, I agree with you. No Kindles for me, although my husband loves his.

On another board we're discussing Arnold's new decree that California schools will only use digital textbooks. Am curious to see how that works. I think it will be a giant goose egg, myself.