Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
The weight is just over 10 oz (280 g). This is about the same
> page size and weight as a 517-page paperback book on my shelf. (A book
> by David Hume.)
I don't generally carry 500+ page books around with me. I choose
slimmer volumes when I'm going out.
I picked that one because it weighs the same as a Kindle, and the
page is close to the same size. I wanted to see how many pages a 10
oz paperback book in the 7" format has. This is the smallest page
size for paperbacks.
A hardback book such as Mallove's "Fire from Ice" weighs 23 oz., 334
pages. A large paperback such as Beaudette's "Excess Heat" in the 9"
x 6" format weighs 29 oz., 410 pages.
My book printed on both sides of 11 x 8.5" paper with a plastic cover
weighs 17 oz., 190 pages.
So if you want to carry around books about cold fusion, you will be
carrying more weight than Hume's 517-page tome, and much more than a Kindle.
Palm Pilot size:
4 3/4" x 3" x 5/8" thick
Palm wins running away.
Except that it is not as good for reading books, according to the
reviews I have seen.
So, right now it's just a toy: it does jobs which other things we
already had also do, but doesn't do those job a whole lot better than
what we already had. . . . Wake me up when they make folding
Kindles, right not I'm not interested, thanks.
No doubt The people at Amazon.com hope that their competitors all
think like you.
Sometime around the year 1976, I showed a microcomputer that I owned
to the top managers at a certain computer company. They said, I
quote: "right now it's just a toy." And "it does not even have a hard
disk." I do not recall them saying "wake me up when it has more than
4 kB, I'm not interested, thanks," but that was the gist of the
message. Needless to say, they were out of business a few years later.
The moral of the story is that you must get involved in a technology
when it is still at the "useless toy" phase, because in the next
phase it will eat your lunch. The people in the energy business who
ignore cold fusion do not realize this.
See my book, chapter 7, section 3.
- Jed
