I did no research in college. I had to write no papers (except in those english classes unrelated to my major). I didn't have colored textbooks for the most part (unless the text itself was colored).
The only thing I required out of my book was the ability to flip back and forth quickly between the pages.
An e-ink reader with a large enough screen and a fast processor would have worked for my purposes. This plastic logic reader looks promising.
The current Kindle wouldn't work. The screen is too small, the processing speed is too slow, and you have to flip page by page in a system that in no way corresponds to actual book page numbers. As a leisure reader, it works well enough, to replace anything except a leisure book it pretty much fails.
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Speaking as a mathematics major:
I did no research in college. I had to write no papers (except in those english classes unrelated to my major). I didn't have colored textbooks for the most part (unless the text itself was colored).
The only thing I required out of my book was the ability to flip back and forth quickly between the pages.
An e-ink reader with a large enough screen and a fast processor would have worked for my purposes. This plastic logic reader looks promising.
The current Kindle wouldn't work. The screen is too small, the processing speed is too slow, and you have to flip page by page in a system that in no way corresponds to actual book page numbers. As a leisure reader, it works well enough, to replace anything except a leisure book it pretty much fails.