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Originally Posted by SplogSplog
As with many people, none of those options are interesting to me. Here are the top ten I would like in a big-screen reader. Any device with all these features would have me buy it immediately (so long as it was less than, say, US$1000)
1: Instant on and off (i.e. sub-second "boot time" and "shutdown time")
2: Long battery life (thousands of page turns when in use, or many weeks when switched off)
3: PDF support, including continuous page flow, and the ability to view in portrait or landscape
4: Annotations (i.e. scribbling with a stylus) and ideally the ability to export the original document back to a computer with the annotations in place (with an option to include on those pages that are annotated!)
5: Not back-lit, or with the option to turn back-lighting off
6: Very fast page turns (ideally less than 0.5 seconds)
7: Very fast "panning" for moving around large pages (ideally a tiny fraction of a second)
8: Great zoom in and out capabilities (something like the pinch movement on the iPhone)
09: No requirement that I buy documents through some "store", instead the device should appear like a folder on my computer, with drag and drop capabilities
10: Open source OS, so the user community can make enhancements
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Great list!
Use of the stylus and dictionary (and the ability to add more dictionaries) would top my list, wi-fi and an internet browser would be great but I could definitely live without them. A touch screen would be great, I would probably prefer the wacom touch-screens over something that is more user-friendly but degrades the screen contrast. I don't really need a colour screen, but a colour e-paper screen would probably be a nice extra for me. The MOST important feature for me would be the ability to handle PDFs well, and the ability to annotate them and export the annotations.