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Wow! It is always easy to go astray in our conversations, and I request all to return to the original debate. Thanks  |
Off-topic conversation is a hallowed tradition of MobileRead, please bear with us. (There is doubtless a meme about it.)
Despite it all, we manage to churn out lots of useful information, yes?
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Let's hear about Pocketbook InkPad or Kindle DX, or rumours about up-coming models. Anyone?
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Kindle DX suffers a lot from the fact that it is quite old and the software is missing all sorts of potential improvements. I doubt Amazon will be coming out with another 9.7" display, not when (at least for them) it is such a marginal need -- they will assume any of their readers buying Print Replica will get a tablet, hence the Kindle Fire, and to be fair, they are
mostly right.
Despite that, many MobileRead members still cling fondly to their Kindle DX's, since the 9.7" screen is a nice thing to have,
especially for PDF. I do not know if any of them are in the habit of reading technical PDFs, but perhaps someone who owns one will stop by and share their experience with technical PDFs.
What I think most of us are waiting for, really, is the day when a low-power color display fit for ereaders is finally available -- for that will be an obvious choice for a display with all the benefits of e-ink, married to tablet hardware/firmware. Imagine a tablet that is frontlit, has a color display, and lasts for days of straight usage, perfectly readable in sunlight, etc. etc.
Amazon has been sitting on LiquaVista for a while now...