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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
What you described as being today's type of reading heavily involves computer use. Of course Jobs would be inclined to favor those, he sells computers. Reading long text on a computer is not however what most would prefer for many reasons. I know of no one who is comfortable doing so. For me it's my failing eyesight and the fact that I can't really shift position for comfort. A reading device allows frequent repositioning and more liberty. If aPple were to make any portable device resembling some king of reader, I'd be a buyer. I just can't accept that Mr. can not feel for this.
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I totally agree with you. I also am loosing my sight (I can't even drive anymore). My point is that Mr. Jobs is missing the potential of what ebook readers can do. I think that Amazon is on the right track with their Kindle (Although it is the ugliest thing since the first microwave) its online features such as subscribing to RSS feads, newspapers, and blogs, as well as other traditional computer and web content make using the traditional computer for modern reading something that could easily become a thing of the past. I also think that school teachers may also get into these devices. Most teachers refuse to go paperless (especially english teachers) because of all the reading that they have to do, and would much rather read paper than their computer LCD screen. But with an ebook reader, they can download the essays from their students onto the device and read it with ease. In the future I also see that most, if not all, divices will support a stylus like the Iliad has and will be able to edit manuscripts with notations in a variety of formats and not just pdf. Mr. Jobs is just not seeing all the possibilities in the inevitable future of reading. These things will replace the book and traditional computer reading.