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Originally Posted by NatCh
That's the most obvious one to me too, Pie, but I expect there are other apps that would be desirable to other folks, and I'd just as soon they be able to do them if they like, even if those apps are completely disinteresting to me. 
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I do agree that there are other apps that people would want. I'm not one to stop having a clock
option, for example. I think I could have been a bit clearer, and the responses that followed my last bear what I'm about to say out.
The Reader is a reader. It serves a very specific, targeted purpose. Almost universally, the programs suggested here are about (a) fixing the current Reader interface (Collections, ugh!) or (b) adding more features to books being read (Chinese fonts, etc.). All the features are about reading, or getting to the reading.
What I would far prefer to see is Sony
fixing and adding stuff... Stuff that makes it easier to read books. Or, even better, giving Open Source access to the Reader interface itself, and letting people hack on that (alas the phrase "never in a million years" comes to mind -- and even for some good reasons).
The Palm has a far broader purpose than the Reader. And even then, a laptop is broader still. These are all computers -- but we own them for very different reasons. I can certainly see a reason for running
bash on my Reader, but it doesn't provide enough functional value for me to want this feature above and beyond reading-related features. I'd far, far, far rather Sony focus on ramping up work on the Inerface / book reading than waste time helping people turn the Reader into a Linux box. The only caveat to that, once again, would be open sourcing the interface so developers could fix and extend the things Sony doesn't want to.
-Pie