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Originally Posted by tyche
You missed a couple zero's.
I think Large size ink screens are effectively dead unless they can drop into the sub $300 range.
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Not necessarily.
I'd pay for an 11" e-ink device which can present regular PDFs at almost full size.
Annotation is not a must for me, but for business use, it would be necessary.
The great battery life of e-ink is another very important advantage: for travel, the 10 hours of the iPad is often woefully inadequate. Even at home, I hated it when I forgot to plug in my old iRex and it died just as I was settling in in bed for the night, hoping to read for an hour or so.
Then, for extended reading, I think I'd give the nod to e-ink as well.
I have really cooled-off on the tablet thing somewhat. Because, even if I got a tablet:
-- At home, I would always prefer to watch movies/videos on large screens, or browse the web, Flash and all, on my iMac, or write emails on my iMac;
-- When I travel, I would always bring along my Mac Book Pro, which is a must for getting work done, and it is also better for browsing the web, or writing email;
-- If I am out and about, I would always carry my iPhone (just ordered a 4" Samsung Galaxy S Android
and use it for email, text, etc..
Which leaves any tablet I would have, to serve primarily as an e-reader. But then, as I noted above, a large screen e-ink device would serve this purpose better, IMO.