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Originally Posted by Nate the great
First of all, the Eink display is irrelevant to the discussion of file format and conversion software.
The Sony Reader is not really a second gen ebook reader when you consider the history of ebooks, though I will agree it is a second gen dedicated ebook device.
The first gen ebook reader was the Apple Newton. The second gen (and maybe third) is the various Palm PDAs. And then there is the Franklin Ebookman, various Gemstar devices, the original Cybook, the Sony Librie, and a couple others I can't name. So the Sony Reader is at least a fifth gen piece of hardware - maybe more.
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The Eink technology is very important in this discussion, as it's has it's own pro's and cons which reflects to the used software and hardware.
Higher resolution at smaller screens, and extremely low power consumption. And to keep that low power consumption, a relatively weak CPU had to be used, which doesn't allow on-demand processing of PDF's as proposed here (just like there are no MP3players that had a builtin CD-rip function)
The point of the story is, there can be no "ebookreaderhype" as long as there isn't one widely accepted standard. And without a widely accepted standard no company can include enough convertingsoftware, because that's simply too expensive. They have to develop it themselves (and the connect reader already does it's stuff for DOCs). So until then... be satisfied with the efforts of the community.