for me screen size is important. those tiny PDa screens are really uncomfortable for reading. You either have to make the fonts very small, move your nose up to the touchscreen so close it almost touches or you make the font larger and thenyou have to turn pages every 3 sentences.
I'm hoping for e-ink...pricing is an issue, availability too, but I guess I can wait a bit....it won't kill me...I still have enough paper book slying around.
The slow display is not really a problem. Turning a page in a book also takes a second...I'm sure nobody is complaining about that. I haven't seen it "live" yet, but from waht I've read and seen in the vids it appears to be acceptable. You probably won't notice the delay after a couple of days.
My only real concern is, that content has to be made available...I don't want to be forced into "pirating" my books just because ebooks are scarce and priced on par with hardcovers.
As for the Nokia and similar devices...taking into account how much I read, it would probably not be a good idea to use one of those. battery-life would be my first concern. Even if the battery is great, it'll be flat after 2-3 days at most (my PDA can hardly manage 3 hours of reading) and that's not what I want, especially if I take my "book" with me on vacation or read it on the train where there is not necessarily an AC output available at all times...
Last edited by CommanderROR; 04-06-2006 at 02:45 AM.
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