[athlonkmf]

I'm now actually getting the feeling that you're blindly promoting that device and not reading arguments at all.

Originally Posted by recycledelectron

I've got TBs of books, audio books, etc. The useful material is out there. You have to know where to dig for it.

You're just comparing apples to pears now. We're talking about readable content and you come in with audio books. Yeah, that's useful comparison.

We'll need lots of stuff beyond a color reader with a big screen and some color eBook downloads from Amazon.com to create my library. When full color ebooks appear on the market, and the rest of the hardware catches up, I plan to be ready. So, I'm working on my library's software now.

When the full color books are available, we'll need a database or search feature to find what we are looking for. For example, I'd like to know who was a fictional character in Shakespeare's MacBeth, and who was a historical figure. Was the king a real person?

Use mobile wikipedia for reference searching. And this has nothing to do with color or not.

When the full color books are available, we'll need an AI to note that you lack the prerequisite knowledge to grasp what you're looking at, and to suggest other (simpler) books. I've (accidentally) found that the books cited in a book I'm reading, or the books that cite the book I'm reading make a good starting point to filter to find prerequisite knowledge.

When the full color books are available, I'll still be in the middle of a book when I need to put down the reader. I'll want to tap a button, and switch to an audio book. I can drive to where I'm headed, then switch back to the text version (at the point I stopped the audio book) without loosing a word, and without flipping pages. (I'm working on that software.) What happens when your audio book is abridged, and the text is unabridged? (That's a question I hope to answer.)

I've (accidentally) found that original papers on a subject engender interest far beyond what a text book can. A science lesson comes to life when students get a copy of Ben Franklin's original letter to the (then) Royal Society of London about his kite experiment. Local high school students have been recreating Bohr's gold foil experiment that showed atoms are mostly empty space, based on Bohr's original paper that came from my library prototype.

I've noticed that you can not set out your library to charge - it's too noticeable. It's far better to charge off a car's 12V DC than off solar power, if you have a car. Using standard rechargeable batteries allows a generic charger to charge the batteries and for your library to stay hidden.

Andy

Why don't you just skip a few technical achievements and ask for a direct interface in your brain connected to the world's database so that you don't actually have to read or listen to data. Instead, having the knowledge pumped directly into your memory?

When asking for new technology, one has to make realistic assumptions and do it step by step. With logical timelines.
I said that extra storage for e-readers was going to be needed when we have graphical content to read. That's when color-screens come in.

If people need to listen to audiobooks, get a freaking mp3-player.