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Originally Posted by mSSM
At the moment, ereaders are useless for higher education. Since 2011, I own an Onyx M92.Originally, I bought it to read textbooks and scientific articles. While I do have several 100 MB of both loaded onto the device, I mainly use it for pleasure reading or, at best, looking up a paper while on the road. Nothing beats the simplicity and spead of going back and forth between actual physical pages. An actual computer is able to simulate that, but even that is inconvient. An ebook reader is simply too painfully slow.
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Generally, I disagree. While to a certain degree it surely depends on one's personal preference and in particular style of reading, I find my M92 well suited for scientific reading
as far as hardware is concerned.
I agree that in practice, the speed makes it, say, uintuitively slow to flip between pages in two regards: Flipping pages is rather slow and navigating in general is a pain in the back. However, I attribute that solely to poor software design.
As far as hardware is concerned, the limiting factor is the response time of the screen and the bandwidth between memory and screen. Former is - as I think we can conclude from the video posted here
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=757 - sufficiently fast to allow for an intuitive speed. Latter is simply a design choice.
The problem lies with software and hardware producers generally relying on in-house, inept software developers (or give possibly skilled developers too little time to produce adequate software).