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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm certainly not doubting that it is for you, Mike, but for what percentage of the Reader's potential audience do you think that is true for?
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I don't know but it'd be interesting to find out. Different ebook sellers, from whom I've already bought some books, provide the content in PDF format which the reader isn't capable of displaying adequately.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
There may well be a market for A4-sized devices for people such as yourself, but I honestly can't see how you could ever do it well on a screen as small as the Reader. To my mind, the Reader is the "paperback book killer", not the "Magazine/Textbook/Newspaper killer".
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I don't see why I require an A4 sized device. When I'm reading I'm not "reading" the whole page. I only need to see a sub-part of the page laid out properly. I'm perfectly happy switching back and forth between pages.
There's no reason the reader cannot be a general purpose reading device. Do people buy newspapers and magazines because they want the content laid out in a specific manner or do they buy them because they want the content?
I think the reader is a very nice piece of kit full of unrealised potential. Unfortunately I'm not convinced that Sony are the people who will realise that potential. I'm by no means a Mac fanboy but if Apple were to release an iReader tomorrow it'd be (interaction) designed properly and would probably launch ebooks into the main steam.