我们需要什么样的电子书Oyster And The Book Technology We Still Need..docx

Oyster And The Book Technology We Still Need 我们需要什么样的电子书Reading anything long on a cell phone has never been very appealing. There are options -- Instapaper will save magazine articles for you to read offline, Kindle and iBooks have adequate mobile apps -- but in general, none looks great. Whatever the exact reasons, trying to tackle a substantial work on a micro-screen is wearying. Reading a book on a Kindle, Nook, iPad, or any other tablet, meanwhile, affords a larger screen and often, well, more breathing room.长时间在手机上阅读可不是一件惬意的事。虽然掌上阅读的途径很多：Instapaper可以离线阅读电子杂志；Kindle和iBooks也有对应的移动端应用，但总的来说，没有一个完美的。究其原因，在狭小的屏幕上处理一大堆事情是非常恼人的。Kindle、Nook、iPad或平板电脑等大屏幕设备的阅读体验要好很多，但读者也需要更多的阅读空间。Oyster, backed by Peter Thiel of Founders Fund, Hunch co-founder Chris Dixon, and others, may be a temporary panacea: It offers the most aesthetically pleasing smartphone reading experience to date. The app provides a channel to more than 100,000 books on your phone. For $9.95, you get unlimited access to books and can add or drop any at any time (the app saves the last 10 youve opened for offline reading). In theory, the service could be a godsend to avid readers: a turbo-charged, 24-hour mobile library -- personalized. Of course, Google (GOOG) and Amazon (AMZN) loom large as giants that could, it would seem, make Oyster obsolete with great ease (particularly Amazon with its formidable e-library). But ignoring the business implications for a moment, I wanted to evaluate Oyster simply on a user experience basis, as someone who reads a couple novels each week and usually prefers to do it on dead-tree material.在Founders Fund的皮特?泰尔、Hunch联合创始人克里斯?迪克逊等多位风投大佬的资助下，手机阅读软件Oyster横空出世，向用户展示了堪称迄今为止最为优雅的智能手机阅读体验。Oyster拥有超过10万本图书的移动书库。只需每月9.95美元，用户就能阅读Oyster的所有书籍，还能随时把它们加入书库或从中删除（这款应用记录了用户最近打开的10本书以供离线阅读）。对于如饥似渴的书虫们，Oyster可谓天降大礼：它就像一个拥有海量藏书的全天候可定制移动图书馆。当然，如果和谷歌（Google）或亚马逊（Amazon）这样的老大哥相比，Oyster简直不值一提（尤其是考虑到亚马逊那令人生畏的电子书数量。）不过，咱们暂且不提商业影响，作为一个每周都会阅读好几本小说，而且通常是看纸质书的读者，我想从用户体验的角度来点评下Oyster。The only clunky trait