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I've written an topic about improvements that can be done in the e-ink screen software ( to only update those parts of the screen that need updating, instead of refreshing the whole screen).
This made me wonder if the reader executes it's OS directly from it's flash memory chips, or if it like a computer first loads the OS (kernel) in the cpu and RAM.
An OS that runs directly from it's flash could possibly save tremendous amounts of battery life, and reduces the need for RAM.
That way most of the RAM will be dedicated to the books you read (eg: a pdf file of 27Mb goes straight in the RAM.
If they would replace the RAM with FLASH SLC memory, a 128MB would be more than sufficient, could mean you never need to reboot the device ever again (or boottimes could be close to 2 seconds), since instead the reader stays 'always on',without really consuming much energy at all being inactive.
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