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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I expect that'd be a customer service nightmare. People expect to be able to type at something like a reasonable speed, and e-ink won't support that. They may also expect to be able to edit docs (add bold & italic; copy & paste), and adding those functions to an ebook reader--while possible (we managed them on PDAs more than 10 years ago)--would be extra software *and* slower/more cumbersome than people expect doc editing to be.
I would expect them to get lots of complaints about "this doesn't work the way I think it's supposed to, therefore you suck for selling it to me."
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I'd be completely fine with the slow speed if it means I don't have to carry around my netbook or a notebook and pen (or a qwerty smartphone) with me if I'm traveling.
It would be a simple word processor. Since the base OS is some derivative of Linux, then why can't they simply throw on Vi, Nano, or EMacs? They wouldn't necessarily have to code their
own word processor given the many free alternatives floating out there.
Hell I'd be happy if they made the bookmark notes a separate app with no character limit per note. I could do away with bold, italic and such (could always use === and ---- to underscore titles).
(Or maybe I just really badly need a Blackberry at my point in life.)