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Originally Posted by Joebill
I am looking for a 8.5x11 inch reader for tech manuals.
Wifi and touch not required. Storage is.
Do such devices exist ? Costs ? Links ?
Thanks !
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something to consider, btw I too want a 14" reader like you, but don't forget you can easily reduce the margin space letting the device that is workable be much smaller...maybe an 11" or 12" panel is enough with smaller margins and some fun with fonts and graphics scaling (something these devices really are weak in doing).
But give it a few months and we'll see what evolves. I am hopeful I might still be around when the finally reach the market, and there is a market especially for reference manuals in many areas. I suspect we'll see a few in monochrome then won't see much movement until we have color and flexible color because large panels need very sturdy frames and cases, Mg Alloy with stainless steel frame as a minimum to prevent screen torque which is one of the more common causes of death of current EPD panels.
However they will be out just not right away and not in color unless you can live with a 12" tablet/slate PC type device which I am very sure we will see in the first half of 2011...problem is the OS and getting the content for the device...as in ADE/PDF/EPUB and the ability to run some version of Kindle reader software. Because the mfg's have been very lazy at developing a viable slate PC OS we have not seen these devices a decade ago when they should have begun evolving into the PADD device many of us expected by now. Add to that the bull-crap politics of the format battles and the technology is sort of stalled out right now because why do the R&D if the sort of users who would be drawn to such a device find it too limiting in terms of content restrictions because of licensing terms for the competing API's.