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After Amazon beginning two weeks ago made the "Kindle" the step on the market of electronic reading devices and previously released as Bookeen and iRex new reader is the class of a E-Book - Reader after a long break back into the light of the public sphere moved (eg Newsweek here).
Previous attempts to industry, consumers were making devices for reading electronic documents tasty so far been largely unsuccessful.
This is absolutely understandable, if it raises the question of why to buy equipment, the special feature was that they had about the outer size of paperback books and TFT or LCD displays only documents constituted. An added value to the vast market of notebooks, UMPCs, PDAs and smart phones was not to recognize the best of intentions.
With the progressive development of the electronic paper , called eInk technology, the latest device, however, have reached a threshold that they can be interesting for professional readers.
because the value of the current and next generation can and will above all be an ergonomic : Who
daily texts for hours of computer monitors must read knows the associated efforts and physical consequences sufficiently.
The offer on the basis of eInk technology working displays compared to the previous display types, the advantages of high contrast, viewing angle independence and good readability under varying light conditions. In short, it results in a charge which is the reading of texts printed on paper much closer than the reading of current displays.
To make this ergonomic advantage for professional readers must be fully utilized over currently available devices, which is consistently oriented to the representation of texts in paperback format (see Market Overview here) but are extended one thing: The display size.
's readers are dealing predominantly with text in DIN A4 format to prepare a display of 9 cm * 12 cm in eInk display no joy. As far as the available devices can offer as the Dasrtellung PDF documents to scale this is only a stopgap.
An e-book reader with the advantages of eInk-A4-display and the possibility of using conventional media such as SD cards and USB flash drives many thousands of pages of documents in non-proprietary Formats to mobile have available - so that could open up for the e-book reader, a new market.
Overall, expected to happen in this area over the next few years will be about see here and here and will establish eInk displays with the progress of technical development on other devices.
