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Originally Posted by Beryll Snyder
Right now you need two devices for your workflow. The reader and a PC/tablet.
Is this really better than printing and reading paper documents? If you have to annotate, you do it on the PC, that is what you will have to do anyway. So eye strain is much less, because reading is done on paper.
For a fraction of the price of a reader you can print many copies.
And how many hours are wasted just to get the whole thing going?
Too many for my taste.
And after one year or so much better devices will be available anyway.
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IMHO there are several misconceptions here:
a) Workflow before I bought my Iliad: print documents (because reading them on TFTs really is straining), annotate the printouts, lose the printouts, redo work when I have to revisit the documents => so it's not just about printing cost, but also about redundant work
b) When I have a working reader, I do _not_ need to annotate the document on the PC after annotating it on the reader => the PC is optional in this specific aspect of the workflow
c) It is not my experience that new better work- (as opposed to leasure-reading) devices just spawn up. This may hold for leasure reading devices (small, ultraportable), but the customer community for 'professional' devices just seems to small (And the devices are not flashy enough for management
). When Irex went bancrupt, there wasn't a real followup product for years (I was really glad when I learned of the M92). => Supporting the few companies that produce the stuff I need to work (and having a usable, though not perfect tool in the meantime) IMHO makes sense.
Just my 2ct. Cheers!