Readius slashdotted

[TadW]

Slashdot has picked it up now: Rollable E Ink Displays Get Real.

One dude's reply:
Want a Readius?
No thanks -- I'll roll my own.
Why, you must be from Holland.
Sure, aren't you?

[jæd]

What I love about those stories in Slashdot is seeing how soon some geek pipes up about e-ink being bad because they love the feel/smell/taste of paper... That and the nay-sayers telling us "why it will fail"...

[igorsk]

Originally Posted by jæd

That and the nay-sayers telling us "why it will fail"...

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

[flumbo]

Originally Posted by jæd

What I love about those stories in Slashdot is seeing how soon some geek pipes up about e-ink being bad because they love the feel/smell/taste of paper... That and the nay-sayers telling us "why it will fail"...

Yeah, slashdot seems to be an outpost for Luddites. In every slashdot story about electronic books at least one person says "yeah, but you can't use it in the tub" or "i'll miss the smell of paper".

I have paper books I use specifically for the beach or when I know I'll be leaving it unattended. I've been working on a Clive Cussler paper book for about a year now a chapter at a time. When I'm done I'll give it to the local library. You don't have to use use the electronic reader for every application.

There's a post on there now about how "Sony's eReader failed" and several about how the screen on the Readius is too small and needs to be larger than the Illiad screen to be usable. I'd happily trade my Sony device for the Readius with the smaller screen. I've read hundreds of books on my palm/pocket pc devices-- the portability was more important than screen size and I didn't miss extra words a bit (of course this is for fiction, not tech manuals). I can only read a few lines at once.

[Blue Tyson]

Originally Posted by jæd

What I love about those stories in Slashdot is seeing how soon some geek pipes up about e-ink being bad because they love the feel/smell/taste of paper... That and the nay-sayers telling us "why it will fail"...

Yeah. No-one ever mentions the second hand book you order that has been sitting in a smoker's office.

Or the 20 year old dusty paperback.

Or the mouldy book.

Or the one with coackroach guts squashed in the middle.

Or the smelly old damp ones.

If they love all those smells, their olfactory organs are from different planets, I reckon.