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Originally Posted by anotherchance
I think our biggest fight is always going to be against the negative, ignorant comments about the latest ebook reader based on "black and white screen", "no note taking capability", "can't display PDF", "no back light" etc. I believe most of these comments come from people who DON'T READ BOOKS anyway and can be comfortably discounted.
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Hmmm... I, for one, do read books. In fact, I am already a huge fan of ebooks, and read them on a regular basis. I have been doing so since the days of the Handera 330 and PeanutPress (eReader before Palm grabbed it). Having done so, it beguiles me that buying hardware
especially designed for ebook reading would offer
fewer features than my
very outdated Handera.
Why would I buy special hardware that forces me to give up some of the great advantages of ebooks? Some of the very reasons I prefer ebooks to pbooks?
I don't care about PDFs, except that I hate explaining to people why it says PDF support, but unless you are making your own, formatted especially for the device, you don't really want to use that feature. As for what they expect, they expect to smoothly pan around the page and read, just as they do on any other computer screen.
Jack