Well, a little over 10 years ago, this was what was being discussed as the future of e-readers:
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Originally Posted by andym
Some thoughts:-
I don't know whether the future is a super-gizmo that doubles as a phone, MP3 player, video player, GPS and eReader, or separate devices for all or some of these functions - probably a combination of the two.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Many of these aims are clearly contradictory - how many people want a phone the size of a book? Or a book the size of a very small MP3 player? For some devices, small size is a "plus", but for others, large size is.
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Interesting how things have changed, and stayed the same...
If we go back even further, to 2006, we have this:
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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
If we go back to the first news of eink, the pictures accompanying the news show a flexible plastic sheet. This is the future of readers. A standard size will exist for every format of publication. News papers will share one size, novels an other etc. These readers will be cheap and reusable. The challenge now is to miniaturize computing power and data input sockets to a smaller size proportional with the sheet's thickness. That is one step not necessarily in line with novel readers but with the true meaning of e-ink.
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Shari