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karunaji · 02-17-2012, 05:08 AM

I am not talking about 50 inch screens or other consumer toys. I just want an e-ink screen that would be comfortable for reading pdf documents. As I gather from this forum I am not alone in this desire. That fact is that epub or mobi are fine for purely textual information like fiction but technical reading is still mostly based on pdf. That's not going to change in near future due to variety of formats.

I suppose that A4 size e-ink tablet would serve this need. However, if another tablet is a risky business, it would be even simpler to make a separate e-ink computer screen. Some people have already hacked Kindle to act as a second computer monitor but that's too crude to be practical. One would need 2 Kindle DX screens to put together to make a laptop sized screen. It should not cost considerably more that the price of 2 Kinde DX devices. It could be even slightly cheaper as you need only the screen itself with some controller chips, without the CPU, RAM or battery.

02-17-2012, 05:08 AM	#23
karunaji Evangelist Posts: 421 Karma: 1033566 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Latvia Device: Kindle 3 Wifi, Bookeen Opus	I am not talking about 50 inch screens or other consumer toys. I just want an e-ink screen that would be comfortable for reading pdf documents. As I gather from this forum I am not alone in this desire. That fact is that epub or mobi are fine for purely textual information like fiction but technical reading is still mostly based on pdf. That's not going to change in near future due to variety of formats. I suppose that A4 size e-ink tablet would serve this need. However, if another tablet is a risky business, it would be even simpler to make a separate e-ink computer screen. Some people have already hacked Kindle to act as a second computer monitor but that's too crude to be practical. One would need 2 Kindle DX screens to put together to make a laptop sized screen. It should not cost considerably more that the price of 2 Kinde DX devices. It could be even slightly cheaper as you need only the screen itself with some controller chips, without the CPU, RAM or battery.