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Originally Posted by djtestudo
Because we aren't looking for a "fully-featured ultraportable" 
Right now, the technology is such that it doesn't do much. However, it does the things that it does really well: display text in a way that mimics real paper while using almost no power (I can hear the Text-to-Speech feature right now laughing at your "ten-hour battery"   ), and increasing visibility (especially outdoors) while lowering eyestrain and other issues from the computer monitor screen.
It's like the first people who purchased a laptop or an MP3 player. |
Fair enough, textbooks on a laptop aren't exactly comfortable but I'd like to see these things loaded with a tablet-style screen and the ability to share documents via bluetooth or a local network. That'd eliminate the need of textbooks and notebooks, revolutionize the classroom and be awesome for the environment.
But, to answer the op, I don't see students lining up to shell out 5 bills over one of these.
