Thread: Will 2009 be the Year of the E-book?
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Old 03-19-2009, 05:15 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
As of right now, there is NO reader that is good enough for textbooks. So that won't happen for a long long time to come. I don't think it will happen in 2009.
Yeah, display size is an issue with all the different sizes of text books and full page tables/graphs.

Being able to highlight and annotate easily (as easily as in a paper book) is also a barrier. I find it much harder to do on PDAs and tablet PCs currently.
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