First, if Hanlin can ever get a version of their reader that supports a full touch screen (for note taking & web browsing) as well as Wi-Fi, it will sell to every college in the USA. We all use some online course system, mostly Blackboard, but sometimes WebCT. We all have Wi-Fi in our class rooms. We want our students to be able to log into Blackboad via Wi-Fi and take a quiz. The students want to be able to record a lecture, post it to a web folder, and listen to it later. They want to be able to take notes, or type an essay. They want to be able to check their eMail. They need to be able to access text books the instructor selects.
The battery must by able to take a day-from-hell (16-20 hours) and then not be charged (the user is too tired to remember) before the next day (10-12 hours.)
The market is probably 1 million units per year, if Hanlin can get it right. I'll make it required for a few hundred college freshmen a year, if they ever start selling one that does what we need.
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Originally Posted by power100
margin!
is there margin on your A4/letter printing?
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Assume a 1" margin, all the way around an 8.5" x 11" piece of paper. (8.5x11 is not quite A4, but it's close.) That's a 6.5" x 9" sheet. Use the pythagorean theorem. The diagonal = sqrt(6.5^2 + 9^2) = sqrt(123.25) = 11.1 inches. That's NOT 9.7 inches.
Andy