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Originally Posted by AprilHare
Your point is quite valid 
... but my bank balance doesn't quite match the overall scope of the dream.. not yet  |
Well patents unlike copyrights do expire so in a few years the early e-ink stuff developed in the 90's will be open for anyone to manufacture. A few more years after that the advances will open up. A free market will drive down prices and then a prs 505 or kindle 1 type device will end up costing about as much as a portable cd player did before ipods became popular.
$30-$50 for a no frills liseuse means you might have 2 or 3 laying around. Someone sitting at their computer might reach for one to use as an extra flash drive and then lend it to a friend as a way of transferring data. I've done that myself with an old ipod shuffle. Imagine someone in star trek holding a small stack of PADDs, they pass them around to other people in the room and don't much worry about it. That's the future of the liseuse I think.