# E-books

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/e-books/4833>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [January 23, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/e-books/4833 "2014-01-23T02:14:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![SpaniardSlayer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/spaniardslayer/32/94_2.png) [@SpaniardSlayer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/SpaniardSlayer)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/e-books/4833/1 "2014-01-23T02:14:00Z")

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Since the game is in the future, it seems kind of weird how you still have to carry around physical books. I suggest adding some kind of scanner item that scans a specified book in your inventory and makes it available to read on a PDA. The scanner would consume a certain amount of batteries depending on how big the book is and the PDA would also consume a small amount of batteries when reading, but it would let you read in the dark without another light source.

Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 2:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/e-books/4833/2 "2014-01-23T02:22:16Z")

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What is this hipster garbage? I want physical copies! No DRM!

Same argument for steam/owning a physical copy. E-books have DRM in the future, so people stopped buying E-books and started reading regular books.

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**Author:** ![infectedmochi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/infectedmochi/32/206_2.png) [@infectedmochi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/infectedmochi)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 2:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/e-books/4833/3 "2014-01-23T02:25:04Z")

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+1  
I like the idea. “E-book” makes me think of having the player find book usb and load them into PDA, permanent books without the added weight, but cost batteries instead. But I like your proposal too.

> [@gtaguy](#):
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> Same argument for steam/owning a physical copy. E-books have DRM in the future, so people stopped buying E-books and started reading regular books.

No.

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**Author:** ![Uneron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/uneron/32/89_2.png) [@Uneron](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Uneron)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 2:37am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/e-books/4833/4 "2014-01-23T02:37:46Z")

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Could make it so that reading costs slight amounts of power, but allows reading in the dark (as the display is powered, see?). I support the idea.

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**Author:** ![Zireael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zireael/32/956_2.png) [@Zireael](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zireael)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:42am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/e-books/4833/5 "2014-01-23T08:42:31Z")

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I like all the ideas, dunno which one is the best.

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**Author:** ![EkarusRyndren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ekarusryndren/32/80_2.png) [@EkarusRyndren](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/EkarusRyndren)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 11:55am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/e-books/4833/6 "2014-01-23T11:55:50Z")

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can we stop calling it a PDA? They stopped calling them PDAs in like 2008 or something. They’re tablets now…

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**Author:** ![wad67](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/wad67/32/7_2.png) [@wad67](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/wad67)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/e-books/4833/7 "2014-01-23T14:00:10Z")

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I-slab computing tablet…