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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
I think there is more than one market for e-book readers. Or maybe there is a continuum of markets. Sure, a major part of the market is the "I just want to read my fiction books on something the size of a paperback, with about as many bells and whistles as a paperback" folks, and there's nothing wrong with that.
But another part of the market is where Snowgoose and I sit: we want something that can display complex formatted pdfs. PDFs don't reflow worth a darn (except a tiny subset, I gather) so that means a big screen. Snowgoose wants it for magazines; I want it for scientific journal articles. I already have something suitable for reading my fiction books, (and I love it)--now I want something that can replace a whole filebox of printed pdfs from molecular biology journals. If that overlaps with a "senior market" for displaying pdfs and word docs at 8 1/2 by 11--great!
And while there are plenty of things out there that let you read paperbacks, there isn't much available in our market. The iLiad is very expensive, and really a bit on the small side. The Plastic Logic reader sounds like it might work, and so does the EZ reader True. That's the kind of thing I'm watching for now.
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this is kind of where im at two as I need whatever I buy to be able to read my rpg books as im sick of haling them around.