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RE: (Gallery: E-book e-reader list is growing)

Mike106132000@... 21st Oct 2009

I'm using ADE on my laptop. Adobe Digital editions.
It's a free download and allows you to read .pub or
.pdf files and when you close it and reopen it it
keeps you place. The only drawback is the white
background that gives me eye strain. To the person who
commented about the errors on e-Books; try proof
reading one on a computer and looking for all those
errors. I found a few errors on each page the first
time I proof read my novel. Minor things like a comma
in the wrong place. then I re-read and found a few
errors per chapters. I'm doing it for the fourth time
and still finding errors, mostly minor like I miss the
r when I type your fast! It has to be perfect though
as it will probably be published I print. When I'm
rich i'll pay a proof reader! But e-Books and the low
cost of publishing will revolutionise the availability
of fiction and non-fiction. Adobe and other sites are
giving away free e-Books like Mills and Boon; enjoyed
by millions but not my taste. I think people who don't
read many novels and read lots of non fiction like me
will find new genres that match my taste and fast
moving stories that are the type of thing I enjoy
writing. I am also a comedy writer and we need a lot
more than that. Our creative efforts as writer can
become a revolution that may well help pull the world
out of economic recession and create a world of
readers. Children were caught up in the world of Harry
Potter and his magic; now we need some magic for
everyone to enjoy. It will be another revolution
similar to the one that pop music brought to us and
ABBA outsold Volvo cars in Sweden at the height of
their success. Perhaps, the future of the US economy
relies not on General Motors but the creative genius
of technologists giving us the tools and writers
exercising their imagination.