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Originally Posted by Katsunami
While I can understand your POV, Amazon did try to sell a 9.7 inch e-reader, even before the 9.7 inch tablets came onto the market. It sold so badly that they never updated it, and are even selling old stock up until now.
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And yet companies are making them in Europe / Asia. Why is that? Part of it is they are pushing them as e-ink tablets...
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
The one step up that would get me really excited now would be a 7 or 8 inch 4:3 full Android e-ink tablet, because the Android apps offer more customization regarding the appearance of a book than any e-reader has now. (I'd also go for a 10 or 11 inch widescreen e-ink tablet, that can display two pages side-by-side.)
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Exactly. Add blue-tooth to that device (or a USB port that works with a keyboard) and you can connect a keyboard to it and use it as a word-processor, etc. These machines are already being produced in Europe and Asia.
We are light-years from such a device in America.