Re: Dr. Michael Hart, "inventor of eBooks," March 8, 1947 – September 6, 2011

a great great sadness, I had the pleasure to meet him on this list ... nine years ago..  Ciao Mr. Hart, e grazie
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--- In [email protected], "Daniel P. B. Smith" <yahoogroups2006@...> wrote:
>
> Dr. Michael Hart died today. According to Project Gutenberg as quoted by the L. A. Times, "Hart was best known for his 1971 invention of electronic books, or eBooks." He was at one time a regular, provocative, and wise contributor to this mailing list. 
> 
> LA Times: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart
> 
> "One thing about eBooks that most people haven't thought much is that eBooks are the very first thing that we're all able to have as much as we want other than air. Think about that for a moment and you realize we are in the right job."--Dr. Michael Hart
> 
> What I remember is that some years ago I very occasionally exchanged emails with him and got replies which... displayed on a then-traditional 24x80 screen, i.e. monospaced like typewriting... had a justified right margin. Yet all spaces within the text were single spaces. He had (or cultivated) the knack for writing unstilted, flowing English while choosing words that would create a justified right margin!
> 
> Wikipedia article: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart
>




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