from http://www.factolex.com/EDVO

http://www.technologyreview.co.....19736/?a=f

Another plus is that the unit feels very solidly built.

The bad is that the screen is smaller than I expected, the buttons feel very cheap, and the side scroll LCD is so reflective that it is hard to see. I would have preferred a plain black color to a silver color.

#65 - no touch screen. You select stuff on the screen using the scroll wheel which moves a cursor up the right hand side LCD (which is silver and kinda hard to see, which kind of surprised me).

#55 - I definitely overthought the wording of my post Just the same, I see this not *just* as a replacement for my books. That’s the point I was trying to get across– the value is not *just* in a cheaper way to get books. And if you’re as voracious a reader as me, you would have many more than one bookshelf to “lovingly arrange.”

I’m not sure if technologically it could be touch screen, because of the way touch screen works. I love the fact it is light on the eyes.. that’s a HUGE plus.. because thats essentially the biggest drawback to reading online, except for the fact you may be confined to the locale of your desktop.

Why repurchase your old books? I see a sense of frantic, cult-like obsession forming in some of the comments I read above. Just do both. Just because you read blogs doesn’t mean you can’t read a printed newspaper. You can do both things damnit.

This can be good for young people, maybe if the government can endorse/subsidize this. I think this is a space well worth competing for. You don’t necessarily need access to amazon, the blogosphere and independent publications might be good enough, for a cheaper price. I’m guessing something like google android could even appear here.. Google Reader ?!?!!??!?!??!

The future lies in wearable glasses not anything being held.

@54: This isn’t meant for us, it’s meant for people like #23 who look at a lovingly arranged bookshelf, the physical manifestation of a lifetime’s worth of acquired knowledge and fantasy, and see nothing but “paper clutter”. They also use sentences like “I’m interested in adding extrinsic value to my life while at the same time reducing cost of living over time” with a straight face.