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Originally Posted by jswinden
Another worthless design. What's with adding a small color LCD just to call it a color reader. It is NOT a color reader! Besides, just like all the other proprietary readers it will have too many book limitations for the average user who cannot even pronounce calibre, much less figure out how to use it.
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What it COULD bring to the table is speed for some things like queries, browsing collections, etc. E-ink is simply rubbish for anything that involves moving somewhat faster than a glacier. It's a "tweener" solution I think, before we get good reflective displays that refresh faster than grass grows.
If they minimize the footprint of the color screen and give it the necessary functionality, I think this has promise, and seems better designed than the Alex thing.
Also, hopefully the average user won't have to resort to using a program like Calibre. It's a reflection of the sad state of the current ebook world.