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Originally Posted by screwballl
This is only the start of the ebook revolution. Look at cell phones back in the 80s. Giant bulky unreliable blocks... as time went on they got slimmer and more features. The same will be happening with ebook readers, except due to it being a "reader", the size will increase slightly until there is a good medium of what people want without being oversized, probably around the 8-10" mark will be the limit. Also as more companies start making them, the formats will have to be slimmed down some, so it is hard to say which one will take over but there will be a reduction down to 2 or 3 key ebook only formats, as well as the ability for other typical formats like PDF, TXT, RTF, and so on.
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The Kindle DX already sits in the 8-10" range. But it is not portable. What I want is for the current 6" models to get rid of their keypads, LCD screens etc and go to e-ink touch screens so that the portability of the form factor remains the same but the reading area increases.