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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Maybe. But other than screen clarity, I can't think of one technological advance that would improve my current ebook reading experience. How will faster, thinner, and more capacity enhance my "Buy Book, Turn pages" habits? To be perfectly honest, I think we've already blown past the Rube Goldberg point with todays eReaders.
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I think we might be mixing 2 concepts here:
1- what we think the current eReaders will evolve into
2- what technology is going to take over eReaders
It has happened with many things:
Laptops -> netbooks -> tablets.
phones -> phones with PC properties -> ............
Concerning the current standards, i would say we have reached the pyke. After this, everything would be tweaking into enhancement; slimmer, lighters, faster. But no real improvement will come.
If we take a technological gap (say a bending screen which we have been hearing for 4 years more or less); well, that would turn most eReaders obsolete.
That's my point of view at least; as Diap says, there isn't anything else to do concerning the product, but adding eyecandy and flashy buttons.
Concerning the screen: i prefer e-ink than LCD for the reflection factor; it doesn't bother with any soruce of light; going into a flexible LCD screen would be a step backwards in my opinion. But there is a market inclined into LCD eReaders (~tablets mostly), and thus, I see manufacturers pointing their sails into that direction, and leaving eReaders as they are. (same as it has happened to mp3, the first 3 years were incredible, after that, there wasn't nothing new except the name "iPod 4th generation"; there hasn't been any new development regarding mp3 players since....)