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Originally Posted by ardeegee
I'd love to have a reader that thin and flexible-- but that isn't one, in the photo. Look at the far side of the "thingy" in the photo-- see those 4 tabs? The contacts for plugging into a cable. That is just a bare display panel with none of the necessary electronics, battery, and casing included.
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Oh - it's not a reader in itself. But try that with a display removed from a Kindle and you'll have a very broken display.
Flexible (or rather, non-brittle) displays will eventually result in much thinnner, smaller readers, as they won't need so much bezel to protect the display.
I certainly hope to see a mass-market paperback sized ebook reader that's only (say) 0.5cm thick, and with a display covering almost the entire front surface within four years. And for under $200. Under $100 in 8 years.