10-09-2009, 01:48 PM | #46 |
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Well what I was getting at was color it self doesn't change the meaning of the words on screen, but I can see it being overused and gimmicky. Black and (off)white really provides the ideal color scheme for reading plain text. That was a bit of leap from where I was headed with my comment.
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10-09-2009, 02:17 PM | #47 | |
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10-09-2009, 02:20 PM | #48 |
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I'm more enthused by B&N's "imminent, 6" screen, running Android" and linked earlier by sforce. This link was also on Teleread today.
http://gizmodo.com/5377505/barnes--n...and-next-month d |
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However, many technical & scientific books would be greatly enhanced by color; a lot of charts are much harder to read in black & white. Color's a terrific way for pointing out important information in a complex set of data. And books about history--pretty much any kind of history--are better with color photo options. Ditto books about wildlife. Books about crafts, whether stone, wood, yarn, or glass, are more useful with color images. That's without getting into magazine and coffee-table art book issues. Yes, there'd be abuses. Self-published blog collections with color smilies all over the place, and seven different fonts on a page, and half the text in purple script. We can ignore those, and focus on the usefulness of four-color maps and photos that let you know what kind of bug that is. |
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10-09-2009, 02:47 PM | #50 |
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Color would be great for childrens books, like the 500 that Disney put onto their website. I wouldn't mind having color for my digital collection of comics.
Of course, I would give up color if it is at the expense of resolution and contrast. |
10-09-2009, 02:53 PM | #51 | |
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10-09-2009, 02:54 PM | #52 |
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Maps and travel/tour books, too.
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10-09-2009, 03:11 PM | #53 |
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I will believe it when I see it! I would guess that the 'Spring 2010' is the best case guess for when they will be able to market this thing.
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10-09-2009, 03:12 PM | #54 | |
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They are an incredible product if they are actually used. However, putting one in a Kindergarten or even a first grade classroom is just overkill. Even with what would seem a prohibitive price, the school board saw it as a win/win for all parties. I must say that I liked using it with my 3rd and 5th graders and the kids liked it too. Having said all that, school boards are happy to make a committment to new technology that is an effective teaching tool and one they see that will make an impact with student learning. A color e-ink display device which allows for storage of multiple books and is sturdy enough to stand up to the riggers of young students would be a perfect example and one that, if the price is right, would have school boards, administrators, and teachers (not to mention parents) salivating. |
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10-09-2009, 03:25 PM | #55 |
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Barnes & Noble's do not yet have any ebook reader on the market.
I guess the only thing they can do is tell us tales of their next vaporware super-reader "around the corner" so hopefully people will wait for it and don't purchase some Amazon or Sony reader this fall. It's sad. Ie Plastic Logic reader are always "around the corner". |
10-09-2009, 04:28 PM | #56 |
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Color is pretty sweet, good to see they don't mind leapfrogging over Amazon in certain ways. I hope it does REALLY well, more competition would be great.
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10-09-2009, 05:34 PM | #57 |
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I wonder if they will have to get out cans of Walmart-knock-off spray paint to get their readers through customs in China?
And to those whining about color being "useless"...so is your home (live in a freaking cave or lean-to), vehicle (walk or ride a horse), printing presses as well as paper (rock and chisel...naw too much tech...oral history is good enough), electricity (manual labor is good for you so electricity is unhealthy ans thus unnecessary), and to be kind your current ebook reader is overkill as well--there are billions of p-books already---your vice has killed enough of the planet already! Stop doing worse with your evil technology... freaking luddites...hehehehe...just TEASING and exaggerating to illustrate that once upon a time every change in how things are done was claimed as silly and/or unnecessary at some point...most of them we could not live without today, though I say we should be doing more manual labor every day as THAT would make us each better off. For me I want a full sized/large panel color reader with true full color panels. I do not "need" animation/motion enabled screens for a long time as all I want now is the ability read/take my antiques reference books, photography books and other similar content with me. For the simple pleasure of recreational reading a 5" reader like the Pocketbook 360 is just fine. But for my color reader I want an 8.5"x11" panel as PL is using for their B&W large format reader...fyi that means it is a 14" reader, well, just about a 13.9" reader if you want to split ~0.1" hairs. |
10-09-2009, 08:24 PM | #58 |
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I love the gray is a color theory. Rogue B&N Sales Rep. or marketing genius?
The relevance of color depends on the price. The Fujitsu Flepia (http://tinyurl.com/cl2so3) is the first color e-ink reader available now and it retails for 99,750 yen or US$1110. The color in this demo looks, well dull (http://tinyurl.com/ykz5t6y). So the question is whether you would pay double the price of a Kindle DX for dull weird color that you would not need for fiction, and could live without for non-fiction. Last edited by fuzzy_dunlop; 10-09-2009 at 08:28 PM. |
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ghlight=Flepia And yeah, the colors look to be washed out...that will change within a year, if not from Fujitsu then PL or another player like even Samsung (a stealth player I suspect in the whole area of epaper panels...it is a direct competition with their DLP LED based TV's and the new lower power LED TV's...so they have a HUGE interest in this tech and it won't be long before one of the current companies is bought out by Sony, Samsung or other big corp...) DLP LED TV's... http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...3&q=LED+dlp+tv |
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10-09-2009, 09:01 PM | #60 |
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I'm surprised to see this news posted here today since plastic logic has denied the color e reader rumor. Basically this BN guy is talking out of his poop-chute and is wrong, at least, about the Plastic Logic part.
It's important to remember, Plastic Logic is making *ONE* reader, they are not branding it under any companies, but they are partnering with some. One is BN and it will be a source for content, not a brand on the reader itself. Anyway, you can see the denial on plastic logic's twitter feed. |
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