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Originally Posted by pkovak
I agree that for some people it would not be ideal or possible. Maybe we could select from more then one cover? Or the cover may have magnet or some other kind of holding on the back of the cover and when you turn the left side of the cover all the way to the back, it would hold there itself. It decreases protection from crushing that I was talking about before, but it would be handy.
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I was thinking along the lines of a hard case you can slide the reader into when not in use. Sort of like those small aluminium external enclosures for external USB/eSata HDD's. But completely as an optional accessory for the buyer. I like the idea of the case, if any, being left to the choice of the user as there is certainly no one size fits all solution.
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Originally Posted by Robertb
I also keep working on the case issue. One of the things discussed so far is an aluminum bottom and sides for rigidity with a leather top. This would give the protection needed while making the device controls accessible. ALSO... I need note the comment for a "kickstand" or hand strap and will try to work on that too. I recently had an operation and know what it is like to scream inpain just to sit up. I will work on it.
Just do not expect instantaneous.
Robert B
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Bummer about your operation. Really I hope all is better soon! Thanks for giving some consideration to alternative methods of holding on to the devices. We have a Kindle and to be honest it as well as the Sony are actually too thin for me to hold reliably. But if I could secure it to the palm of my hand (open flat maybe with my thumb being able to access the page turn buttons) it would make a reader a winner...almost anyway...still the issue of contrast but that is a function of today's eink display tech and will eventually be improved I am certain.
BTW, in my thinking the only buttons I would need access to with a strap/stand would be the page turning buttons. Everything else works fine using two hands for the short time it takes to use the menu systems, find a book, what have you.
I still like the weather sealed device (like the premium line lenses from Canon & Nikon...) in the event one accidentally/"on-porpoise" drops your reader in the fish tank...
I will now go an punish myself for that horrid pun...
And yeah, these things do take time...hopefully, though, most of us have not turned to dust before some of these things are incorporated...ya never know when that bus with your name tatoo'd on the front will come rolling down the street.
One last tiny thing I would love is a built-in app to do crossword puzzles. The Across-Lite format still seems pretty wide spread though Flash has reared it's ugly head as a tech for creating xword puzzle software. Of course that means a touch screen and what not...but not necessarily any sort of handwriting recognition in the device. There was a port of the program Xword to the Nokia N7xx/N8xx running OS2007/OS2008 which just offers a list of letters beside the puzzle...a fair compromise I found. But, I know the touch screen adds a bit of cost...and many would not really use it or even want it...
OK, heck, just xbreed a Netbook (actually a Net-SLATE style) type device with an ereader device and you have a winner...hehehehehe...it's where this is all heading anyway....
have a great holiday's...
