On 11-Jun-09, at 3:40 PM, McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] wrote:
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As a student from the early 1970's to now I really do not like the library holdings of ebooks other than pdf's. My library at the university of Ottawa has some books we view only on screen and we can not print them or can only print them one page at a time. Now journals are better these days but these ebooks are worse at school than they are buying them privately as ebooks. A page at a time? You can check with some scholars and librarians who will also assert that being able to flip between pages with fingers as book marks is essential part of understanding a text. You can only access one page at a time and to get to such and such a page is much more than 1 click. More on ebooks. I published a book and the published released it on google books with out even asking me the editor. The Internet may roll on and Like Jacques Ellul wrote in the 1950's in The technological Society technology rolls over everything like culture religion etc. because a better way of doing things is simply accepted on technical grounds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul#Books The Technological Society. Trans. John Wilkinson. New York: Knopf, 1964. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Rev. ed.: New York: Knopf/Vintage, 1967. with introduction by Robert K. Merton (professor of sociology, Columbia University).