Credible Search Engines & Readers

Yesterday I enjoyed a look at the Sony Reader. I'm actually quite favourably impressed with the readability on screen, although I confess that I feel as if it needs a bit of the iPhone - the ability to just run one's finger across the screen to turn the page rather than to press a button. I suppose that's something for future generations of the reader to have.

I was thinking about this in terms of storage, and thought that someday perhaps I will get to the point where a reader such as the Sony Reader or Amazon's Kindle will do for my book collection what MP3's have done for my music collection. I think I will always want some books - particularly those with heavy photographic content, children's picture books, coffee table books, and even some of the classics - but for those books I just want to pick up and read but not necessarily read again? I could see the Kindle or the Sony Reader being quite useful in that regard.

I also find the idea behind this credible search engine to be fascinating and potentially very helpful. I think it'll be good to keep an eye on this project and see how it works out.