Sunday, June 13, 2004
Electronic Scholarly Publishing
Sony's new "eink" reader
It's light, portable, the battery lasts, and most importantly, the resolution is the same as print.
Eventually, devices like this will set a new standard for reading that will combine the advantages of digital reading -- hypertext, multimedia, lightness, among others -- with some of (not all) the pleasures of reading print that are so far lacking in reading on or from a laptop or current handheld computer for example.
It's light, portable, the battery lasts, and most importantly, the resolution is the same as print.
Eventually, devices like this will set a new standard for reading that will combine the advantages of digital reading -- hypertext, multimedia, lightness, among others -- with some of (not all) the pleasures of reading print that are so far lacking in reading on or from a laptop or current handheld computer for example.
