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Future Ereaders

What is the future of ebooks/ereaders?

I am really sick of carrying my college textbooks. When is the ebook industry going to create better technology. The Sony Ereader and the Amazon Kindle are crap so where are the better ones?

Give it time. The Kindle 2.0 is about to be announced. And the Sony e-reader just came out with a new version.

The technology just keeps getting better and better. It might take a bit of time to get e-readers up to snuff enough to display textbooks with images and tables and whatnot. But it's getting there.

CNET: Ray Kurzweil on the future of reading

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   Philip Tucker:

   People everywhere are conflating the physical structure of a book with the information contained within. What I find exciting about the Kindle and future eReaders is their ability to change the limitations imposed upon the information by the medium itself. People have tried to work around the restrictions of the paper and glue format through books like Choose Your Own Adventure, Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch, or Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, but they all seem to be struggling against the 'book' format, instead of being enhanced by it.

   Might not an eReader with its ability to hyperlink and present dynamic content usher in a new phase in the evolution of the novel? One that might increase the novel's popularity with the general public? I think of how World of Warcraft gained over 1,000,000 new players in the last six months, all of them drawn by the luscious graphics, epic storylines, and sense of community, and realize that not only is print pretty much dead, but that eReaders might be the novel's only hope of competing with these new forms of interactive entertainment.

   06.01.2011 05:27