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Originally Posted by nekokami
Now that Fictionwise owns the format and plans to expand the range of devices, I think that will happen very quickly. We know they've been working on an e ink device of their own -- I would guess it will be another Bookeen clone, but maybe it will be something else.
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I'm hoping rather desperately for "something else" - namely, something that more closely follows their own EB-1150 in design. Of course, I don't want it to be nearly as thick and heavy as the 1150 - there's no need for an e-ink device to be that bulky; size should stay about that of the Cybook - but I would
love to have the page navigation button layout from the 1150 along with the ability to rotate the screen so that you can easily hold & navigate a book either left or right-handed. I'd also love to have the 1150's library design for collection management. Touch-screen and integrated (or low-profile accessory) lighting for the screen would be nice bonuses but not essential, at least not as compared to the other features.
And, of course, backwards compatibility with the IMP format would be great. As would pricing more in line with Sony's Reader than the Cybook (I'm well aware that they couldn't price it comparably with their 1150 - though it would sure be nice if they could...).
Given a Fictionwise e-ink device that incorporated most of those features, I'd snap it up in a heartbeat, despite having just bought the Cybook. (And, even more recently, having bought both a used Sony 500 and 505 for my brother & his wife and for my parents respectively, since they usually read most of my pbooks and I needed something less expensive than my Cybook to loan them for reading ebooks.) While the Cybook's ergonomics don't totally suck, the 1150 definitely has it beat.