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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
Very clever idea. I'd like it (assuming the display could keep up). But I think the general reading public might balk at the complexity, even though cell phones and pdas are increasing their tolerance for unusual text input methods.
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Yep - I think keeping the hardware and UI as simple and unscary as possible figured heavily in the Sony design. That's my guess as to what drove the "upgrades" from the Libre, like a flat file system, no keyboard, etc.
If you consider Joe Novel Reader - who buys his content from the Connect store - as your target customer that's probably a pretty good call. I've never wanted to search a Tom Clancy novel, for example. Bookmarks are pretty much all I need in that environment.
Same thing with a folder based directory. I imagine the predicted number of "where did my book go?" help line calls was what killed that idea off. Who "needs" to carry more than a dozen novels around at once?
I'm hoping Sony will tacitly support us nerds with something like optional folders (e.g. we've got to explictly create them ourselves, but the reader will then support them) and some kind of primative search feature that you can find if you want it.
Cheers,
Bob