of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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"read books as books were intended to be read"
How utterly pointless. There's nothing natural or pure about a book's form factor. This is like the people who design a website like Amazon to be a 3D store you have to walk through and grab stuff off shelves before walking to a cash register, because replicating solutions for practical real life problems that you don't have on a website is 'more natural'.
The only reason a book has two pages next to each other is because that's the most practical way to present a lot of words printed on paper and enabling people to easily get to the part they want to read. Guess what! With electronic books, you've already solved these problems, so there's NO NEED TO USE THE SOLUTIONS THAT APPLY TO INK ON PAPER.
Not quite true. Folding design allows much more real estate that folds into a easy-to-carry package. So yes, while you have a point there, folding e-books might have their place.
But you only ever read one page at a time, so that extra space isn't doing much.
You never use dual monitors?
In the example provided, the second screen can act as a keyboard. Also, in the article they hinted at a single screen device.
If you're using a textbook or reference book, it is very handy to have two pages open at once.
Not that this is the intended function of this device, but eventually comic books will either require a reader with 2 screens like this or one large screen to capture the magic of a dual-page spread.