If we’re to get more broadband, shouldn’t people be encouraged to use it for more than just faster YouTube or Facebook? Nirvana isn’t here yet, but meanwhile, for the fun of it as well as to refine the books-on-TV concept, I’ve gotten ebooks going experimentally on my $50 Chromecast with Google TV, or CWGTV as I’ll abbreviate it. Maybe in the future, this should even be a government requirement as the prices of the hardware, app development, and other tech drop to next to nothing when scaled up. In the perfect world, 4K TVs, Chromecast- and Roku-style boxes, and their remotes would come with ebook-related capabilities built in. With digital books, small-town and rural households can enjoy zillions of reading choices no matter where they live-including the free kind from libraries. Or how about picture books on large screens for parents to read to young children? The same as paper books? Hardly, but better than no books at all, the norm in millions of U.S. Not to mention the benefits for individuals with certain vision impairments. Consider, too, the potential godsend for paralyzed people. Certain USB expansion hubs will work, opening up such possibilities as wired keyboards and expanded memory.įor changing pages, clicking on a well-designed TV remote can be easier at times than the usual tap on your phone’s screen or a squeeze on the volume control. A USB cable connects it with an AC power adapter. The Chromecast dongle plugs into an HDMI port on your TV.
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