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Originally Posted by HarryT
A "large screen iPod Touch", such as Apple is likely to produce, I certainly don't see as a substitute for a device like the Kindle DX or the iRex DR1000. It will almost certainly have a battery life of only a few hours, and won't be readable in direct sunlight.
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[edit] Just looked at the Pixel Qi post, with the netbook that can do lcd color OR a kind of e-ink. And it occurred to me that if an iTablet can do that, it may well remedy much of these two defects. [end edit]
I agree to some extent. Those two problems will likely remain problems. I will add to the mix that I think that in addition to defects of the anticipated iTablet, there are probably virtues in having a dedicated device.
One of them is price, of course. But another is psychological, having to do with the focused attention involved in serious reading. In the same way that some people just don't want to move from pbooks to ebooks, because of the physical aspects of pbooks, I think there are some who might prefer the dedicated device to the multifunctional device.