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fdp · 09-11-2008, 11:29 AM

This really does look very promising for those of us who have had issues with the current selection of devices due to screen size and pdf support. My primary desire for an e-reader in the first place was to reduce my paper consumption by a significant amount. For work I can go through ~200 pages-400 pages of 8 1/2 x 11 printer paper a week, and then there are all the large reference books! We've needed e-paper that can actually replace a piece of printer paper for a while...

As far as running Windows CE goes, I don't see the big deal. I am a Linux user, huge supporter of open source, and hater of Vista, but in all fairness Windows CE is one of Microsoft's better offerings. It should make developing 3rd party e-book applications and user-created programs much easier. Also, Windows CE performs very well on measly amounts of memory and loads quickly both from sleep and in startup (soft-reset). In the long run I think that the e-reading community (and the world at large) will benefit from open-source, but in the short term it makes sense for a company like Plastic Logic to concentrate on hardware (it's what they do) and go with a known entity like Windows CE for the software side of things.

09-11-2008, 11:29 AM	#48
fdp Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2006 Device: Sony PRS500	Might be exactly what I was looking for. This really does look very promising for those of us who have had issues with the current selection of devices due to screen size and pdf support. My primary desire for an e-reader in the first place was to reduce my paper consumption by a significant amount. For work I can go through ~200 pages-400 pages of 8 1/2 x 11 printer paper a week, and then there are all the large reference books! We've needed e-paper that can actually replace a piece of printer paper for a while... As far as running Windows CE goes, I don't see the big deal. I am a Linux user, huge supporter of open source, and hater of Vista, but in all fairness Windows CE is one of Microsoft's better offerings. It should make developing 3rd party e-book applications and user-created programs much easier. Also, Windows CE performs very well on measly amounts of memory and loads quickly both from sleep and in startup (soft-reset). In the long run I think that the e-reading community (and the world at large) will benefit from open-source, but in the short term it makes sense for a company like Plastic Logic to concentrate on hardware (it's what they do) and go with a known entity like Windows CE for the software side of things.