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Originally Posted by HarryT
What is it that you're waiting for? Why don't you have an eBook reader?
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1) Large (or at least largish) format that allows for taking notes fairly easily, under 400 US dollars. Based on screen shots I think I will find the Touch tolerable, but barely, for this purpose.
2) Can't mentally justify the $200 plus price tag for something I could only really use for recreational reading (if I had the time to read like I used to, or was commuting, sure, but right now the library's "treebooks" do me just fine). And I can't really justify the $600 plus for the existing iRex products to meet my paperwork handling needs. Now if I could get my department to pay for it (hah!), that would be a different story. Getting rid of the PITA factor of carrying around piles of articles is worth, tops, 400 bucks for me.
So, I don't know if the new upcoming readers will ever actually exist (Plastic Logic, Astak) ever actually do what I need them to do (new iRex), or if an existing reader that is currently over my monetary sweet spot (Kindle DX, not that I like the idea of taking notes with my thumbs but it does have a large screen) will take a price dive to compete with the new units. Within the next six to twelve months. Particularly if there is actual new technology (the plastic screens) that might radically change manufacturing costs, design options, etc.
So, I'm looking for the wisdom of experience--do great things look like they are really about to happen, or is this wave of announcements the usual process of companies blowing sunshine up everybody's skirts to keep them waiting for something that will never arrive?