mutterings of a cynic

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

tomeraider lacks soul

tomeraider is an electronic book reader. It's a very good idea - you can download books, poetry, dictionaries, encyclopedias, movie databases and more. Their slogan "print is dead" gives us a nice idea of how they see the future of document distribution... Clearly that's pushing it a little far and thankfully they'll never make it for at least 2 reasons.
  1. The software is about as usable as a kettle made of molten plastic
  2. They provide versions for windows, pocket pc and palm
Why oh why do people not realise that they have to think about more than just windows? I don't even use other operating systems myself, but it still gets on my nerves. I don't want to have to think whether someone will be able to read a file when I send it to them - I just want it to be possible, on their mobile phone for all I care.

So many people take a good idea and then break it. It pains me.


posted by nj at 13:31

2 Comments:

  • I've been using tomeraider for years on psions. It is indeed annoying that you can't use the latest version on psions, but version 1 is still pretty good, and it's the only sensible way to get wikipedia onto a CF card.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:19 pm  

  • Aren't most kettles made of molten plastic resin, and then injection molded?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:35 pm  

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