Every one that wants to read for recreation, please step to the back of the room. This is NOT for reading the latest best seller.
"Is that for real?
Way too big with the silly (IMO) double screen design."
I'm using 2 screens. One 22 inch and one 19 inch. When I'm studying I use every inch, and sometimes wish I had a third! I also will use a (paper) notebook as well.
"--just saying that it wasn't something I'd want. Even being a professor who still deals with textbooks for classes I'm teaching etc."
Just as a professor - Do students need only one text book? No need to highlight or mark up text? No need of looking up outside references? No need to take notes? No need to look up definitions?
In one MR section I saw a book mentioned - "
Die a Dry Death". It mentioned the name of a ship (Batavia) that rang a bell, but one that I couldn't pin down.
So a side trip to Google brought me this (among much else):
It's not the ship that matters, but that with internet access you can gain a better grasp of whatever you're studying.
I was recently in an office supply store and saw a netbook computer with a 10 inch screen. I turned it so the screen was vertical. Ignoring everything else, my impression was that the screen was ok to read on, but was too small for me to use with schematics. Two 10 inch screens would not be much better for a student.
Watch the video to see how something like this could be used to study.
Don't forget to check out the
students responses.
The Kno is in line with the Entourage Edge, HP Slate, & Microsoft Courier Tablets. Not an ebook reader.
Does it have problems? Probably.
Give up a small reader? No.