Google Editions

[GeoffC]

the need for a computer screen or iPad type device seems to be my understanding of how this will work. they appear to be providing a scanned version of their books - OCR therefore not an issue, but will make a number of dedicated devices unsuitable.

hopefully this will be a model that will not take off too much ?!

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

the need for a computer screen or iPad type device seems to be my understanding of how this will work. they appear to be providing a scanned version of their books - OCR therefore not an issue, but will make a number of dedicated devices unsuitable.

hopefully this will be a model that will not take off too much ?!

How about a lot of devices... Or rather, most of the devices... Even if you do have an internet connection, if it's not OCR'ed, how would it look if you have a smaller (6" or smaller) device? Which is still the majority of the dedicated devices.

[GeoffC]

I stand corrected - I didn't want to put my foot in it ....

[dmaul1114]

Originally Posted by khalleron

Which lets most of us out. Which of us, after using a dedicated reader, wants to go back to reading on an LCD? .

When I get an LCD tablet--be it settling for an iPad, or someone else making one that better fits my need, I'll have little to know use for my Kindle.

I don't get any eye strain reading on my girlfriend's iPad--or on my laptop or desktop with LED backlit screens (form factor just sucks for reading on them). But of course I'm far from an avid reader and rarely read for more than an hour at a time.

Excluding reading for work (college professor) and that's mostly A4 or close sized PDFs which don't work on the Kindle anyway, and e-ink is ill suited for that type of reading as it's too slow for flipping through documents.