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There is actually an e-reader called pbook in the UK which may confuse people if it ever crosses the pond... I will probably stick with "book". :) <BR>
-esther moberg<BR> <BR>
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:31:05 -0800<BR>From: tstave@uoregon.edu<BR>To: libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<BR>Subject: Re: [Libs-Or] "pbook"<BR><BR>
<META name=Generator content="Microsoft SafeHTML">On the other hand, our language is full of other retronyms, which became necessary after successor technologies overtook them: witness "silent films" or "analog clocks" or "horse-drawn carriages".<BR><BR>Tom<BR><BR>On 1/19/2011 12:22 PM, Laurisa Stubblefield wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:4D374801.7070709@lclark.edu><PRE>"...print books (hereafter referred to as pbooks when it is important to
distinguish them from electronic books, or ebooks)."
No need for a new word! "A book" (analogue book) is a book is a book, as it
were. As in "would you like /a book/ or an /ebook/?" It's the format against
which the new forms must be distinguished (hence "ebook" and whatever comes
next), not the other way around.
Laurisa
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