On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Ian MacLean wrote:
On 1/14/06, Bowerbird@aol.com <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:
ian said:
Fair enough - then the iRex device might be a better bet. And less proprietry.
might be. except i heard it will be $300-$500. with no deep pockets to subsidize and back it.
hmm iRex is a spin off of Phillips - thats fairly deep pockets.
way too much for a dumb terminal in this age...
Sure its quite expensive - but its only the 2nd or third e-ink based device out there and that is of course its biggest selling point - the readability of the screen.
"The Medium Is The Massage!"
And besides - an ipod is $300 and it only plays music ...
But it plays a LOT of music!!! eBook readers should certainly be able to hold as many books as MP3 players hold tunes!!! Not to mention that iPods will do eBooks, right from the 1st week they were ever on the market, but I'll be that the new eBook readers won't do iTunes. . .at least for now. . . . ;-) Michael