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Originally Posted by rcentros
In my opinion less than Alphasmart Neos. They don't allow you to edit your document (no arrow keys). All you get for editing is a Backspace key.
The cynical part of me thinks this is their way of avoiding scrolling on eInk screens because they know the limitations. But they advertise the lack of editing as a "feature" that keeps your productivity churning.
When I found out about this "feature" I lost all interest in the Freewrite.
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I have a portable typewriter and correction tape.
I could fit microswitches and use the chip out of a USB keyboard and a Raspberry Pi to capture.
It would make more sense than Freewrite. Sounds rubbish. I know how I would write an application to edit on eink, if you moved the cursor to delete or insert before the end of the document, you have to hide the rest of the page and refresh as soon as you type. No forward delete, but block highlight and delete block (or insert block) refreshes page.
Certainly no existing application for a CRT / LCD / OLED screen will work. Sort of like a hybrid between a Teletype based editor that reprints page to cursor and a regular editor.
I think of eink as Electronic Paper. I regard making an ebook from WP or web content etc as "Printing to Electronic Paper". I've saved now over €700 in paper and toner.
The DXG originally split a website into pages, you clicked page, no scroll. IMO the browser on newer firmwares is a backward step. Ebooks are artificially paginated at run time anyway, I don't understand why they didn't keep it and why PC browsers can't do a page mode. I hate scrolling. Pages were invented about 2000 years ago. Scrolling only made sense on short landscape screens like the 1999 to 2004 Nokia Communicators.