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Originally Posted by rupescissa
As regards textbooks and tech manuals in e- format: no current readers are adequate for textbook reading. Either displays are too small, or there is no method for getting to a certain page, or there is no easy method for going to footnotes, back-of-the-book reference sections, sidebars and the like, and then getting back to where you were. Most textbooks are in large page formats, printed in color and designed for ease of navigation. No e-reader can accommodate that. No e-reader allows for easy page-marking or underlining. An e-reader for textbooks and manuals has to be a specialized device. The Sony, the Rocket and its descendents and PDAs are not up to the job, and a laptop isn't an e-book reader.
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Actually, laptops could do the job for textbooks just fine, because they can handle
PDFs: Scalable, full-color, capable of being bookmarked, highlighted, searched, and linked. PDFs may not be good for small-footprint text-only e-readers, but for color textbooks, they're already optimised for it.
Add Cleartype to the laptop, to make text reading easier on the eyes, and you're set.