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Originally Posted by NatCh
I have a lawyer friend who says that the vast majority (almost all) their paperwork now comes through e-mail as PDFs.
(snip) I've discussed the idea of something that was about clipboard sized that would allow him to read those PDF files, maybe even make notes, was easier on the eyes and ran for a full day or three on a charge. His reaction was ... well, let's just call it "positive."
The same factors would make such a device similarly attractive to doctors, professors, anyone who still deals with lots of paper in our eco-friendly "paperless" society.
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Yeah, this is what I was hoping for with the Kindle DX. In my opinion it isn't quite there yet, but I'm still hoping the next iteration will make it.
There is the iLiad, of course. But that's ...quite a bit more expensive, and I get the impression it's hard to figure out how to get material onto it.
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Originally Posted by NatCh
(snip) the real market here is professional use. The thing that's held them back from hitting that market is most likely the lack of availability of large enough eInk panels to hit that clipboard-size target. The anticipated 9.7" panels are still a mite on small side, but with a margin auto-crop function it'd be close enough.
Would such a device be expensive? Absolutely, at first anyway, but consider that the largest factor that brought personal computer prices down from their original, astronomically high prices was the demand from the business world.
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Good points. And surely with the Kindle having gotten as close as it has, if Amazon doesn't do it, someone else will.
I was interested in something upthread that people were saying about OLED screens--being LCD but not backlit, something like that? Is that the screen the (if I remember right) Jetbook uses? I have a hard time using backlit screens for longer than a few hours, so if an Apple (or any other) tablet was going to be intended for long-form reading, I would want the option of turning off the backlight.
And, on another tack, in my opinion, if any company succeeded in making tablets as common as iPods, for example, that would be a game changer right there. Not because tablets didn't exist before, but because $company made them mainstream.