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Originally Posted by Solicitous
I don't know how they could make the Kindle any thinner and still keep the unit usable. If the device gets too thin it will be too difficult to hold and use IMHO.
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I might have agreed with you until I bought a Kobo. I believe it is the lightest and thinnest of the mainstream units out there. It's quite a joy (and easy) to hold. Yet the screen real estate is identical to my (beloved) Kindle 2.
So, I'm all for evolving the Kindle into a thinner, higher contrast, wifi enabled, second font option unit which preserves some sort of practical keyboard input and -- I know this is asking too much -- ePub DRM support as well.
I have no idea what the economics of this are, but pushing the K2 down to the $199 price point and keeping the K3 around $259 whilst dropping the DX to $399 ... it starts to look like an attractive family line-up. And maybe a souped up annotation workhorse for the academic crowd with a 10" screen at $499 to keep things interesting.