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Originally Posted by Darqref
Actually, my first thought after reading this was that Ahi should be jumping in here....
I think that a small screen *could* work, but only if the texts were authored with the screen in mind. So they could adjust the writing and examples to fit on the screen, with page breaks designed to work with that page size.
So far, it seems that no publisher has even considered that idea. It would take a LOT of re-writing and/or editing to make a technical text work. Maybe Onyx could work with a publisher to organize such editing, but I doubt it would be cheap.
And I agree that the MathCad app would be very interesting. (of course I'm not likely to go back to school again now, but still....)
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I do believe formatting could be forced, with some effort, into a smaller screen. That doesn't really make it much more useful though, as it's still really slow and the input is still very low resolution.
It reminds me of something like a piano app for an iPhone. Sure, it almost works, and it's novel, but I doubt anyone's going to replace their piano with it unless they are
really insecure about purchasing an iPhone.