06-09-2011, 01:21 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: On the other side of over there
Device: Pandigital Novel, Kindle G1 (broken), iPod Touch
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Back to e-ink.
Pogue wrote this:
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“Oh, man, remember those Cro-Magnon e-book readers?” we’ll say. “They used E Ink screens — black text on gray. No color. No touch screens. And every time you turned a page, you got this weird black-white-black flash. Can you believe anyone bought those?”
Well, it’s time for some progress.
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The bedtime routine of many a Kindle owner — wedging a flashlight behind one ear — is a thing of the past.
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As we unwrap our all-color, all-touch screen e-book readers under the 2015 tree, we’ll remember this machine as the one that showed the way.
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