http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/ Engadget Comments for Copia promises to blend e-books and social networking into set of new readers http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/the other ones have a .. boring style ..]]>Jan 6th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/most photocopies of notes and study material are still black and white.]]>Jan 6th 2010 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/
Whats the point of a 16k color display when you can use a netbook?

ebook readers are for reading... get this... text.]]>Jan 6th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/
If you only need plain text one of the current readers is enough but once you get into areas like technical literature these readers become more or less unusable due to the need for multi-colored diagrams or syntax highlighing.
That's also an area that offers lots of commercial applications but for which b&w readers are complerely useless.

It might surprise you but there's people who read more than the latest biography of Paris Hilton of the fiftieth Harry Potter novel.]]>Jan 6th 2010 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/
Let me answer your question with another question(s):
-Who wants to read a book on a device with a 3.5" screen?
-Who wants to read for hours at a time on a LCD with backlight flicker?]]>Jan 6th 2010 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/
Maybe all the studious people who do not live in the U.S.]]>Jan 6th 2010 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/
I think they're catching on, but I doubt they'll be the tsunami all the manufacturers hope for - they're just not glamorous enough.]]>Jan 6th 2010 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Jan 6th 2010 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/Mar 5th 2010 8:42PM