Title: News about E-Ink
Author: Alex Kirk
Published: September 28, 2005
Last modified: October 4, 2005

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# News about E-Ink

September 28, 2005

[E Ink: Entwickler-Kit mit elektronischem Papier – Golem.de](http://www.golem.de/0509/40681.html)
(
the corresponding [PR announcement](http://www.eink.com/news/releases/pr85.html))

go on, go on, go on. that’s what i want. i don’t like reading on the screen very
much. i waste tons of paper just for printing internet pages and reading them, e.
g. while travelling around through vienna by tram.

unfortunately the [e-book device](http://www.ebook88.com/devices.html) development
seems to have stopped in 2002. i hope that this will push forward new products, 
although i believe there wouldn’t be an affordable one within 2 years. in the u.
s. give europe another year. :o/

an additional note to the hardware developers: don’t even think about a two-display/
double-page e-book device. that’s what i always hated about books. when reading 
while lying the next page is always uncomfortable to read.

still one more: don’t mess around with supporting a lot of document formats. just
pdf will do (flexible os’es let you save any printed document as pdf).

ahh. one more: underlining words on such a device would be too much comfort for 
the beginning. needing a touchable display it would be too much work. postpone it.
please.

now for the last point: use e-ink. it only needs energy for displaying new pages.
this will make the battery as long lasting as i want it to be.

e-ink, e-book, pdf

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