persistenceunlimited.com — "If you like ebooks but don’t like reading them on your computer screen, this How-to post is for you. I’ll show you a quick and dirty book binding technique you can use to turn your ebook into a real book with about 5 minutes worth of effort. In fact, this is so easy, you might end up self-publishing your own books on demand for profit."
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mtthwmiddletonOct 8, 2006
The value wouldn't be great unless, like mentioned before, the book is unavailable in a store, or it's a textbook, if I could find any of my textbooks in an eBook version (which is near impossible) I could save a ton of money.
dbloodnokOct 8, 2006
At uni, we had our Networking lecturer up about that because he printed everyone a copy of the HTTP specification as a class hand-out one day. His response (paraphrased; it was a few years ago): "The paper came from trees in a renewable plantation, and as long as the paper ends up buried instead of burnt, then this hand-out is helping to extract carbon from the atmosphere."
edziebaOct 8, 2006
There's a new one from Sony that's pretty nice, but not perfect. The best possible one at the moment is then iLiad. It's got an awesome display, wifi, and runs linux. Only problem is it's really damn expensive (~£440). If you have the money for it, it's probably worth it though.<a class="user" href="http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad">http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad</a>
jesserOct 9, 2006
Sounds nice, but I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to use the services mentioned in this article <a class="user" href="http://www.timeatlas.com/mos/Web_Sites/General/Outsourcing_PDF_File_Printing/.">http://www.timeatlas.com/mos/Web_Sites/General/Outsourcing_PDF_File_Printing/.</a> I've used PrintFU with success and the rates are good.
t3hxOct 9, 2006
Palm TX. If you don't use BT or WiFi, and turn the screen brightness down, it'd easily get 6 hours. 128MB of internal storage, and a SD slot. 320x480 screen, so reading is nice. It can read PDFs with PalmPDF, or plain old text files with Documents To Go, or TealDoc or anything.
muffinmanpooOct 9, 2006
@carpeclunesPeople like you are the reason we have to charge our (poor, underprivileged) students per page.
grigOct 9, 2006
I saw something faster back in the 80's. You take your printout/photocopy and slap on a cardstock cover that has a layer of hot glue stuff on the inside of the spine, then you put the book spine down on this heated pad and gravity pulls the paper edges down into the softened glue. Once heated and cooled you have a usable book.
msgyrdOct 13, 2006
IDK about your school, but at my college we pay a rather large, non-negotiable paper/printing fee each semester. I figure, if they are going to charge me $100 bucks a semester, I might as well try to recover that cost by printing everything I can on campus.
Closed AccountNov 7, 2006
It is not worth the time or effort to do this for most articles, unless you have a 200+ page document. I will digg this because of the methodology.