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I think the idea of a perfect ereader from such an imperfect system is a bit silly. What is needed is real competition. We need lots of companies who aren't trying to sell us books to try to design the perfect ereader for us. Of course they can't because there's no such thing but that way we'll get whatever we want.
That could also lead to something else that would vastly improve ereading: a universal syncing service. What if you could read on your phone using whatever app you choose, get home and read on your Kindle and then at the office read on the Kobo or Sony reader you keep there, and always begin automatically where you left off. And any of those devices could download and read any book you got anywhere. That's a perfect system and it could lead to much more perfect ereaders.
We just ain't got no competition. What we have is a lot of book sellers giving us good enough ereaders to sell us more books. They're doing a decent job of it within the limitations of the system but it's a bad system.
Barry
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