[Steven Lyle Jordan]

I presently read e-books on my handheld, and I'm cool with that. I don't feel the need for a hardware reader for that. But in evaluating why I would use a reader, I've finally realized what I really want an e-reader for:

Comics and Graphic Novels!

Yes, I'd like an e-reader with a (roughly) letter-sized screen, and full color, in order to enjoy my scores of graphic novels and hundreds of comic books! I'd love to carry around my entire run of manga, superhero comics and compilations, SF, humor, and hardback graphic books, available to me at all times. Not to mention the hundreds of pounds worth of books and comics, and a lot of square footage given to shelves and boxes, gone!

This does mean that I need color. It also means I need an easy way to scan all that stuff in, and save it in a sufficiently small file size to allow me to save a lot of stuff.

This is, I think, why I haven't gone ga-ga over any of the readers out there... they still won't do the job I need them to do. Not quite. Or, those that can do not have an easy way for me to get my stuff into them.

But someday...