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Originally Posted by HarryT
Not me, for two reasons:
1. I don't want an A4 screen - it would be far too big to easily carry around as I can carry around the Reader. For reading technical books or magazines, it would be great, but not for reading fiction, which is what the Reader's primary market is.
2. A colour screen has inherently only 1/3 the resolution of a black and white screen. I would imagine that the "pixel density" on the Reader's screen probably represents the current limit of the technology, and I wouldn't want a colour screen with 1/3 the resolution of the Reader. Colour is of limited use for fiction reading - most books are very successfully printed in B&W. There are certainly good uses for colour, but a much lower resolution screen would be too high a price to pay for for me personally.
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I do share your reservations Harry. When I get the A4, most of the novels, if not all the novels I read will be on the PRS.
But I do read comic books, this is where I need colo(u)r *. I also need it for pictures as I do a lot of photography, and eink is a must for my old eyes.
A4 is also a must for textbooks and the catalogs I have. Having to fire up the PC to find a machine part is simply wrong.
Pdf would also be at ease on such a machine and it would simplify some of my presentation work.
Mostly, I DO want keyboard input and the drawing possibilities the Iliad features.
Altogether this would be a totally different beast, ridden in parallel to a dedicated reader, of which the Sony is the better representative
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* Intended to our overpond readers, just like is done in French for gender.
