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08-16-2014, 05:11 PM | #272 | |
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I wonder if an education market tie-in could be tapped. If these could really replace paper textbooks, then that would be a masive market. But I'm sure there is some resistance to that from publishers because paper textbooks are probably very profitable. |
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For education it would make more sense to go the tablet route rather than eink. At least everything pre college. The current young generation that is in school right now is glued to their smart phones - so apperently there is nothing wrong with reading on those for hours straight. With addition of color and video traditional textbooks can be enhanced quite nicely - neither of which is available in eink very well.
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At the moment, ereaders are useless for higher education. Since 2011, I own an Onyx M92.Originally, I bought it to read textbooks and scientific articles. While I do have several 100 MB of both loaded onto the device, I mainly use it for pleasure reading or, at best, looking up a paper while on the road. Nothing beats the simplicity and spead of going back and forth between actual physical pages. An actual computer is able to simulate that, but even that is inconvient. An ebook reader is simply too painfully slow.
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I agree that in practice, the speed makes it, say, uintuitively slow to flip between pages in two regards: Flipping pages is rather slow and navigating in general is a pain in the back. However, I attribute that solely to poor software design. As far as hardware is concerned, the limiting factor is the response time of the screen and the bandwidth between memory and screen. Former is - as I think we can conclude from the video posted here https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=757 - sufficiently fast to allow for an intuitive speed. Latter is simply a design choice. The problem lies with software and hardware producers generally relying on in-house, inept software developers (or give possibly skilled developers too little time to produce adequate software). |
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My point is this can be done, but you need a big company like Apple to do it. |
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I'm not sure that most people want a device that is only for one thing, and that one thing being for classwork. I would count teachers in that group, too. Once they find out they can't use it as a tablet, they're going to lose all enthusiasm for it.
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I've still got my FamilyPad 2 bought more than 2 years ago! And guess what? At 13.3", this is the only affordable largest display reader (I prefer not to think about the "alternative" reader like the $1k sony reader Digital Paper DPTS1... ). Unfortunately, the FamilyPad 2 is now discontinued, so I may have a very rare product here (search into Ebay if you can...) Thanks a lot. 2 years, and absolutely no evolution in this field... I've got the impression that the manufacturers want more and more to follow the masses (IPad mini 3 : what innovation ). A sign of the economic crisis? |
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