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Originally Posted by macminer
Yes, I guess it is my specific needs that make me not the right customer for a dedicated ebook reader, as it stands today. I do use Calibre, but because I read a lot of academic books, preserving the original page layout is often crucial for me. Calibre might convert an epub into mobi or even a PDF into mobi, but retaining the original layout is often beyond its possibilities.
One thing I noticed with the recent version of Kindle for Android is the new way of displaying footnotes (a simple popup window with an [x] button) - I consider it a huge improvement over the previous mode.
My ideal e-book reader would have the following features: - E-ink screen, 8" in the typical p-book proportions
- Open source or at least providing the option to sideload applications like Evernote
- Ability to use different formats, including PDF
- Page refresh fast enough to deal with complex formatting in the case of PDFs, so that I can easily zoom in and out
I guess with today's e-ink technology limitations, this is just not possible. I wonder how many other potential customers for ebook readers there would be if they weren't so clearly cut for the "average" fiction reader? Maybe there are still many niches unexplored and this could be a direction for future ereader development? |
Anything is possible I would guess. The ereader technology is still fairly young in comparison to paper books which have been around at least since Gutenberg first printed his Bibles. We've just advanced from the clay tablet to the scroll, manuscript, paper book and finally to the electronic tablet. In a sense we are back where we started just with an improved version of an old media.
