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Originally Posted by GeoffC
It is true that the OP has made the usual argument for the Gen 3, interesting some of the comments such as 8000 page turns seem as though it was pinched directly from the official bumf .....
Incidently no-one I've noticed here on MR has mentioned anything about termination of the Gen 3 - at least not without it being a tongue in cheek comment......
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Battery life seems to be a point with some different opinions... Compared to backlit devices it's excellent - everything else depends... (for me it's perfectly OK - lot of playing around at start and reading 4 books has brought it down to 50% + I often turn it on/off, using any free minute to read some pages)
BTW: With the Weltbild-CyBook they've changed advertised reading time first to "6000 pages" and later to "up to 10 books"!
I can understand pekefoschs comment, about his fear of the technology/platform dying before it spreads. There are lots of things going on at the moment:
- new eInk devices appearing everywhere
- ePub format pushed for DRM standard in Europe
- Kindle looking for Europe
- nextGen readers being developed (WiFi, touchscreen, backlight, color)
- NetBooks, NetTablets, MIDs, etc. being announced/appearing
- and so on...
My POV:
- On the long-term eInk devices/eBook readers will die away and readers on other devices will take over (said NetTablets, MIDs, smartphones etc.) - if there'll be ever those fuel cells available (with said 3-5 times battery life), this will even speed things up.
- If the DRM problem will not be solved soon (ONE de facto standard and/or no DRM at all, which I'd prefer) + reasonable pricing compared to pBooks (lower prices, budget eBooks, package deals, flat rates etc.), they'll have the same problems coming like the music biz.
