Birding field guides... Heh. Yeah, that *is* a natural for the IQ.
Hmm, the IQ has multi-language TTS...
Start thinking along those lines and you can see travel guides and phrase books, repair guides...
Main problem is there is no viable rich-text ebook format (except possibly BLIO) that can do these kinds of things. Hence the early delivery of that kind of content as platform-specific apps (with all the annoyances we're seeing) rather than platform independent data files.
Typical of the computer industry, actually; it is rare when hardware and software are properly matched. When software isn't ahead of hardware, it's the hardware that's raced ahead. In this case, it looks like the Pocketbook IQ hardware has all the capabilities to break through to all sorts of new markets but the software to host the required content just isn't there.
An open application clearinghouse is something Android webpads are going to need if they are to prosper since it is clear Google is too closely tied to the phone vendors to do it themselves. Kudos to Dulin's for getting this.
The more I think about it, the more the IQ looks like a placeholder/proxy/forerunner of the dedicated readers we'll see once we get good color eink screens a couple years from now.
Should be interesting to see what people do with a reader/webpad at this price point...