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Originally Posted by Xiaopanda
With Flash memory being cheaper every day, if you had a device that had say 1 Gig of system memory for OS and reader programs ONLY+ an extra Gig for on-board storage of docs / books/ audio, then add SD expansion for additional content......oh, and kill PDF, for fiction Ebooks, it's almost had it's day, though it does make a neat container for re-conversion to other formats.......
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Don't you remember the CyBook Gen1? It took exactly that approach - a generic Windows CE device with lots of different reading programs on it for different formats. Worked great, although the technology wasn't really "there" at the time in terms of battery life, etc.