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Originally Posted by rogue_ronin
I see this form-factor as a reader/writer. You're carrying it; it's bigger and a lot more legible than your cellphone; use it productively. It's a "book" and a "notebook". It should be like carrying an infinite pad of paper and a complete library. Displaying high quality images and diagrams are important too.
But it doesn't need to check my email or help me chat, nor play videos or music. It shouldn't be a video gaming system, a photo-manipulation suite, or a web browser. Just something excellent for reading, writing, sketching and research.
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I have yet to see
any ebook reader device with competent enough touch input to be useful for much of anything except marking typos and errors in ebooks for easier future editing, or word selection for things like search/dictionary use. I guess perhaps that's enough for some people to justify the expense, but writing and sketching functions are pretty useless, and I have a hard time imagining anyone
actually using ebook readers for this purpose, unless they truly hate paper and will use even the most pathetic technology available to avoid it.
I'd be all for writing/sketching functions if they weren't so reminiscent of a child trying to draw notes in MS Paint while holding the mouse with their teeth.