This is very interesting -- not so much recycledelectron's setup, although it's an ingenious solution using what's available now, but as an idea for the future. With memory prices falling and capacity rising, how long will it be before we have a handheld reader that can in theory store every book ever published in the language(s) of your choice? And one, maybe, that you can plug into the internet and leave overnight to get refreshed with whatever has just appeared?
The device could learn your preferences; you could rate things as you went along; it could make suggestions as to what you might like to read next. If you came across a word or reference you wanted to look up, you'd just indicate this in some way (tap it twice with your fingernail, say) and a search engine would come up with the answers, after which you'd hit "back" and resume your reading.
It could have any number of users, each of whom would have their own profile and preferences -- and of course every page you ever visited could be remembered for ever and found again using a database.
Sorry if this sounds like one of those predictions, in 1964, that we'd all be wearing Bacofoil by now, driving around in hovercars and working 30 minute weeks, but who could have foreseen the present crop of ebook readers even 20 years ago?
Does anyone else have a features wishlist for the ultimate reading display?
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