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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
So what's your opinion? Should we still wait for better alternatives or are current e-paper readers adequate for our daily consumption?
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Daily consumption of electricity is invisible: plug the device in, and you're set. If it involved having to do one-hour spells on a treadmill or clean solar power panels, or maintain a water or wind turbine, and no longer be invisible, devices with high power consumption would be regarded as inadequate.
An e-paper reader must be equally 'pluginable'. If I have to spend an hour preparing a text in order to be able to read it on an e-paper reader, it has a long way to go still.
Language acquistion is sometimes described in terms of 'level of acceptance' and 'level of conformance' (I think those are the terms -- it's ages since I studied language). The first indicates that you can make yourself understood, but the listener/reader still have to make a mental effort to understand and process what you're saying. The other indicates that that effort no longer is required, and that communication flows more freely.
The current e-Readers seem to be at the 'level of acceptance'. When they're past that, we can discuss if they're 'adequate for daily consumption': just now they're strangers that are not up to standard speed when it comes to communication. So far, it's not so much a question of adequacy on their part, as tolerance on our.