Thread: It really is a shame that my e-reader doesn't have an SD slot
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Old 12-08-2014, 05:48 PM   #115
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Originally Posted by twowheels View Post
As an advocate of the KISS approach to an e-reader I agree with this POV as well and believe that there's probably a market for ruggedized, high resolution, high capacity devices for this purpose, but that's a very different market than the novel reader.


That is a specialized market, and has no place in commercial ereaders.

In fact, that specialized market is currently being served by a device that actually does a good job rendering PDFs in large part because alone of ereaders it has a PDF-sized screen: Sony DPT-S1
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