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Yes, actually. There is a Mentor Light coming... we hope in April. That is a 6 inch. There is also a 5 inch coming out in both the EZ Reader and Mentor lines this Summer.
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Sounds like good news. Will definitely be interested in seeing what comes about.
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... and the leather case and 2GB SD card, and ear buds, and reader/writer all are included along with 200 classics. "Basic" does not have to mean "devoid" of useful things!
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"Useful things" is a relative concept
First and foremost, I'm interested in a eInk reader for
just sitting down and READING. I can see that there are a LOT of features out there that people want and need and find useful. BUT I also see that a LOT of time is being spent on adding features aimed more at showing off the coolest new gadget rather than fixing simple graphic design flaws and enhancing the simple aspect of just READING. I think interface and reader software designers should be forced to sit down and read Robert Bringhurst's
Elements of Typographic Style.
Even something as simple as hyphenation, we have the knowledge to avoid things like combining forced full justification with horrifically broken hyphenation. Considering the state of hyphenation on the current crop of readers, the majority of them should've been defaulted to left justification. And yet
TeX solved the problem of full justification on electronic devices back in 1989, a freely available library of code to handle sophisticated hyphenation, smart hyphenation paragraph by paragraph rather than line by line, and micro-adjustments of both word and character spacing, creating readable paragraphs that rivaled classic typesetting.