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Originally Posted by HarryT
Most of the cost of an eInk Reader is the screen. Let's suppose that $250 of the price of the CyBook is the screen. The cost of a screen will be proportional to its area, therefore we can assume that, in today's prices, an A4 screen will cost about 6x as much as the current CyBook's screen.
Would you really be willing to pay $1500+ for an A4 CyBook?
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Yes I would be prepared to pay that price, especially if it had a decent note taking application. I love my Iliad for reading novels, it is even good to some extent when combined with My Script for note taking. However I really need a device that is A4 in size to allow effective reading of PDFS for work (the iliad is acceptable for this, but not ideal). I also want a device on which I can write notes when out conducting field work interviews which would then be able to convert those handwritten notes to text, again the Iliad has some capability, however I find the screen too small for comfort. The time savings of such a device would be well worth the expense to me.