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There's an entirely separate need which covers all ebook readers: The need to be able to scan printed material, and have it automatically digitized and converted into a meta-format ebook format, which could then be specifically converted to fit a reader such as the Kindle, or many others. It should adapt to print fonts, perhaps with an intial learning stage. It should adapt to single or muti-column formats. It should text flow all content into paragraphs with no fixed line lengths to support text flow on a reader. It should allow one to scan both pages of an open book on a scanner with a large enough size to read both pages at the same time, else read a page at a time, which makes more work for the person doing the scanning, and thus should be avoided if possible. It should digitize illustrations into j-pegs if possible, retaining color in the meta-format version, but supporting b&w only in the 2nd conversion step to adapt to a specific reader (which like the Kindle does not presenty support color). Someday we will also have color I'm sure, once e-paper color arrives, with better and better down the time line into the far future (for current generation users anyway). But until then, there are much better ways to adapt color j-pegs to multi-level grey scale b&w illustrations than those we normally see on our Kindle and other similar readers.
Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif.
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