Thread: Astak Mentor eBook readers with WiFi and Touchscreen (read-only)
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Old 04-10-2009, 09:50 AM   #1780
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I think battery life and e-ink sets those two markets apart.

One could say "why buy an ereader if you can read ebooks in your notebook/desktop computer? Among other things, poeple, generally, don't like to read in backlited screens. It's bad for the eyes and more tiresome.
Well, there is at least one netbook, can't remember right now whether ASUS or ACER, which boasts 9 1/2 hours battery. And it is not idle boasting, reviewers have found it true. So I think that if not correctly priced, 9.7" devices will collide head on with netpc. Now a 300 € 9.7, on the other hand maybe could make it. But still they would have to find a killer applications. 6" are much more portable, 9.7 are definitely unwieldy.
And yes, reading off a screen is supposed to be tiring, but after the apparent huge success of Stanza on iPhone and iTouch I would not be so sure about it.
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