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Old 09-15-2010, 09:01 AM   #1
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The Quest for that Elusive Hi-Res & Large Format eReader

I've been looking into eReaders since I saw and tried the first Sony ereaders some years back. They were too clumsy, small and expensive for my taste, so I skipped them.

At one point I had the tabletPC bug, but all the high-res tablets soon disappeared from the market and then I finally go to try out my friend's tabletPC and understood it was not me.

Last year I was really up-beat about Que from Plastic Logic and Skiff's Pro Reader.

Now they are both practically dead (or in limbo aka "let's wait a year more").

Then I tried my brothers iPad: too glossy, too short battery lifetime, too low res, no sunlight legibility. Otherwise I loved it.

So here I am, still waiting for that elusive high-resolution and large format ereader.

After Que/Skiff are now out of the picture, are the anything else on the horizon on the high resolution and large format ereader front?

Size: 10"+
Resolution: 1368x768 or preferably much higher (1600x1200, or full-hd)

I'm almost ready to break down and buy Kindle DX graphite, although it's not what I want. I read mainly non-reflow PDFs and I don't want to scroll/zoom/scroll/zoom all the time and have no time/patience to start converting my files.

All the Sony/kindle/android-tablet/ipad offerings currently just fall short of this.

So a large format / high res PDF reader it is. But is anybody planning on making one? Or is this quest still doomed to fail another year or more?
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