[IxDA Discuss] notepads and creative tools

[Jim Drew]

On Jul 4, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Will Parker wrote:

> On Jul 3, 2007, at 10:20 PM, Jim Drew wrote:
>>>
>> Wow, I forgot all about those things.  I have an earlier digitizer
>> tablet like this that I bought back in 1999.  In a box somewhere.  I
>> don't think I ever got around to actually using it.
>>
>> To my eternal shame.  My name is Jim, and I'm a gadgetaholic.
>
> Well, perhaps we should explore that a bit. I know that's a long  
> while back, but can you recall what you intended to do with the  
> digitizer and why you didn't actually do that? If your missing  
> digitizer magically showed up on your desk this afternoon with  
> software that worked with your current favorite OS, would you  
> bother to open the box?

At the time, I was working in eBooks, for SoftBook Press (which later  
became the Gemstar eBook) fantastic concept, ruined by dumbing it  
down to chase the consumer market.

We had various mechanisms for moving personal content to the device  
(which was shut down by Gemstar) -- I was especially interested in it  
for digital comics, and am still intrigued by the Sony eInk device  
which they showcase with manga -- and I was investigating the ability  
to move the digital output of the pad to the eBook reader.  For  
whatever reason -- maybe it was at the cusp when Gemstar bought us --  
I put that aside.

Today, I no longer work with the eBook so the incentive to find the  
thing -- much less see if there's software to run this thing that  
worked on Win 98 and Win NT -- is way down the list.

-- Jim