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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1770134" data-attributes="member: 177">*nod*.  The technology to do decent e-book readers isn't quite here yet.Usually, when considering a digital analog of a conventional product, it pays to not reinvent the wheel - rather than try to duplicate the conventional product exactly, you stress the things that the digital product can do that the conventional one doesn't.  I think, though, that print books already do their job so well that the digital products will need to try to copy them as closely as possible.That means that e-books won't live on desktop PCs.  They'll need a reader that is light and portable and durable.  Folks are going to want to take it to their comfy chairs, beds, and bubble baths.  They're going to want to shove them in their purses and backpacks.  The screen will have to be easy on the eye.  It will have to be small enough to be portable, but also sized and weighted so that hte reader can bring it close enough to their face that it takes up a large part of their field of vision, shutting out distractions.  And they'll want them to run for many hours without maintenance.Desktop PCs aren't at all portable.  Currently pda screens  are too small and the objects too fragile.  Tablet PCs are perhaps a bit too big and heavy, and certainly ahve too short a battery life.When they produce an e-book reader that duplicates a print book experience closely enough, then e-books will take off.  Not before.</blockquote>

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