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Originally Posted by Alisa
Hopefully Apple will use their epic design foo to make it light and comfy to hold. Since eink is so power conservative, it cuts down on the heat and the size of the battery. The Kindle DX is only slightly over 1lb. Apple got the Air into 3lbs so a 1lb tablet seems quite possible by them, but the Air only gets about 4 hours of battery life. This is why I'm hopeful about the Pixel Qi stuff. Sure, if you want to use backlight like a regular LCD the battery life won't be that great but most of the times you're reading, you won't need backlight so if you need to stretch your battery life, you have a choice.
I also agree that I want a touchscreen. I don't like the current Kindle annotation method. It's a bit cumbersome. I don't do a lot of annotation but I would with a large reader.
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Yeah, something that I can easily write annotations on is a must for me to every consider an electronic reader for my academic PDFs.
While I love E ink for leisure reading, it's less of an issue for work-related reading since that's done less often and for shorter stretches usually, so I could definitely live with an LCD screen as long as the stylus writing worked well. I've struggled with the couple of Tablet PCs I've tried out thus far. I write small and have terrible penmanship so I really struggled to write quickly and legibly.