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I sure hope iRex doesn't kill the US launch of the DR800SG. I'm rather close to picking one up now, especially with an SDK available. I'm just waiting to see when iRex decides to let the lowly little consumer know when it should start shipping for US customers.
What sucks is that no matter what the iPad does to the eBook market, it's built-in reader is extremely poor. TOC, Font changing, linear view of book covers and a store... full stop. That's all you get in terms of functionality.
No annotations? No tweaking readability beyond font family/size? No organization of my 300+ book collection? No mention of grandfathering us existing types into the ecosystem? Hell, they let me grandfather my MP3s and my MPEG-4 videos into their world... why not my ePubs?
I suppose I could use some updated version of Stanza, and it would be interesting to see iBooks and Kindle for iPad duke it out on the same platform (if they are even allowed onto the iPad in the future)... but again, it fractures the experience in a way that Apple rarely does. It seems almost as if they don't even know what they want an eBook reader to be like.
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