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Robertb,
I just had something pop into my head and thought I might mention this as a way to tip the scales for some of us on the fence when looking at current eink devices. I am not thrilled with contrast ratio's combines with the whiteness reflectivity levels. I know that is an evolving thing and we are only on consumer generation 2 or soon 3 of these displays.
Well, I am a lover of crossword puzzles and work on them daily. I subscribe the the New York Times crossword puzzles every year. I currently use an old PDA and an old program to solve the puzzles. I can tell you if there was a device that offered a program like this I would not stay on the fence too long at all. It would be enough to induce me to live with a light for reading at night before bed.
Pen input would be fine then again so would a virtual keyboard. I am not a speed solver so I could care less about the speed of recording the letters. So any solution for input on some of the family of devices would be fine for me and, I suspect a fair number of others who enjoy crosswords.
If this is a possibility it might be a fine idea to put the question to the users here about software they like now. I use one program that is an Open Source on one PDA and one I bought for the other PDA as the OS is different on each.
From reading I am guessing an old impediment to such features being included was the screen refresh issue being somewhat intrusive. Now given the new controllers which can refresh sections of the display it might be more reasonable? I ask because I am still wrapping my head around the whole eink technology.
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