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I love e-books! I have a Sony Reader. I use it every day, but it falls far short of what it could have been had the customer experience been the focus.]]>Jun 26th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/
Oh well, I can always spend lots of money on new hardware for the same dual-screen effect?]]>Jun 26th 2008 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/I don't want to use two hands to read a book!

I want a lightweight, one hand operated landscape-style reader.

I want it to be priced reasonably, and handles multiple formats.

I don't want to pay the same price for an ebook as the cost of a normal paperback. (This should be simple, no printing costs = less cost per ebook)

Thanks!]]>Jun 26th 2008 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/
This is a monumental fail.

Also I agree, a touchscreen swipe of the finger to turn pages makes more sense than this. ]]>Jun 26th 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/
That's a novel idea!!]]>Jun 26th 2008 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/]]>Jun 26th 2008 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/
Steve Jobs says people can't read. Why would he then invest money into a device that nobody can use (according to him)?

In seriousness, they'd be much more likely to give the iPhone / iTouch ebook capabilities instead of developing a devoted piece of hardware.]]>Jun 26th 2008 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/
Think about the environment a little, will ya?]]>Jun 26th 2008 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/
interesting]]>Jun 27th 2008 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/
Internet ready so I can read blogs
Downloadable books
touch screen page turning in a command area (touching an area separate from the reading portion of the screen)
Include a writing functionality either by stylus or (preferably) digital keyboard for note taking
. . .

my 2 cents]]>Jun 26th 2008 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/When I'm reading a book I'm only looking at one page. I know to go to the next page, but while I'm reading it basically doesn't exist.
Ebook readers are already overpriced, I wouldn't be going for this based upon price.

However, it could be very useful for books with lots of pictures or some text books where you need to go back and re-read a lot.

But there's nothing wrong with having options on the market.]]>Jun 26th 2008 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/

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Then get rid of distribution and printing costs for textbooks and it would be the perfect product and pay for itself in 1-2 semesters (assuming books would go down to 40 bucks or so)

The publishers would get to sell the licenses anew each semester without dealing with the flood of new books on the market, wins all around.]]>Jun 26th 2008 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/
Granted the current 6inch screens won't work well for this. But a letter/A4 sized device would be fine IMO

I always thought I'd keep reading real books. But once I started reading on my PDA (in landscape mode with mobipocket) I haven't stopped.
80 books later I just look at the dusty pile of paperbacks I have yet to read, and then shrug and grab my PDA (currently storing 120 books)

I do want one of the new eink readers. But the flash/refresh on them is distracting enough for me that I'll keep waiting.]]>Jun 26th 2008 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 27th 2008 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/
eBook readers will only become big when they offer a real advantage to make them better than actual books. I would think that things like including hyperlinks to outside primary information / citations with integrated wifi and a browser in the reader would be decent. Also, I imagine they could do something transformational as far as highlighting and annotating the books. And let people share their annotations for collaboration.

Hmm... running though this logic it seems like the way to break open the eBook market would be to invent one specifically for the college / grad school market, where there you would have the added advantage of if you could sell the concept to the school, the school would then mandate that all their students buy eBooks for getting digital versions of textbooks and interactive class things / sharing notes and annotations.]]>Jun 26th 2008 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/26/dual-display-e-book-concept-mimicks-reading-makes-complete-sens/Jun 26th 2008 2:13PM