Thread: Death of E-Ink display?
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Old 12-31-2009, 03:05 PM   #67
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Such as what for example? What can a simple eInk reader not do that other reading devices - let's take a paper book as an example - can do? Many can actually do more than a book - eg search for a word or phrase, or change the text size, or the font.
My primary eBook reader is a Palm OS PDA. What can it do?

All the standard Palm PIM functions.

Word processing, via software and a folding keypoard.

Viewing and editing Word Documents and Excel spreadsheets.

Viewing photos.

Viewing videos.

Playing MP3s.

Surfing the web,

Getting and responding to email.

Communicating with host systems via telnet or ssh, and exchanging files via SMB or FTP.

Programming in BASIC, C, Rexx, Python, Tcl, Lisp and several other languages.

Reading ebooks in eReader, MobiPocket, Plucker, PDF, Word, RTF, and text formats, as well as Palm DOC files and zTXT files. Bookmarks, searching, and annotations are supported, depending upon the document format. Formatting and font size are also adjustable

Databases on a wide number of topics for a pocket reference library.

Scientific calculations.

And oh, yes, it plays games, including emulators for a number of classic gaming consoles.

What can I do with a dedicated reader?

What you mentioned.

The two drawbacks to my device are battery life and screen size. I need to top it off every couple of days in normal usage. This is not a huge imposition. And I'd love a screen larger than the 320x480 screen it uses. I don't have any problem reading backlit LCD screens, so the eInk display is not an improvement for my eyes, and the PDA supports color, which is a requirement here. (And I can turn the backlight off, which makes it usable out doors.)

I'm not in the market for a dedicated reader, because I want a device that does other things as well. I'm willing to carry a cell phone and a multi-function device. I'm not willing to carry a cell phone, multi-function device, and an ereader. (I don't want a smartphone which is multi-function device and phone. I want my phone tiny, clipped to my belt, and able to place/receive calls and that's it. That makes the screen too small for most of the other functions.)

I understand why fiolks find a dedicated reader using an eInk display preferable, but I'm not one of them.
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