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Originally Posted by Slite
I don't want either bigger screen nor colour.
I want a device that will display every format I throw at it without crashing if it's not correctly formated. And with enough flexibility in it to allow me to select every aspect of fontface, size, zoomlevel, justification, etc etc etc.
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I'm with you on all of that except color. True, color isn't necessary for reading straight novels, but the world is a wider place than just novels. It would be
nice to see the covers of novels in color. It's a
must to have colors for comics, children's books, magazines, web pages, etc. And the line between 'readers' and 'computers' will continue to blur.
When I worked at HP in the early '80s (we were making a pre-IBM PC desktop engineering computer), we were just starting to talk about color displays, and all of the younger engineers were thrilled about the idea, but a 50-ish marketing manager said, "You don't need color on a computer display, black & white is good enough for anything you need to do!" Back then, it was understandable that someone with not much "forward vision" would think something like that. Today we should know better.
