Way more usefull...

Waiting for someone to put an iPhone skin... It's bound to happen...

I personally like the screen sizes of the Kindle and Reader P505, they're more like actual books,huge pages turn me off.

I suppose not everyone agrees with Jobs that people don't read anymore...

I am going to play devils advocate here, but WTF would I drop $700 scrilla when I can pick up the paper back for 24.99

When I drop the paperback i don't ruin it. And I don't need to charge it and, reading the paperback on the bus isn't going to get me mugged. Don't get me wrong, I'm into this Star Trek Next Generation reading devices thing, but damn, dude... damn.

However, I can see these types of larger (document or A4 sized) displays being useful to help big companies reduce paper usage and cost. I support a major commercial real estate loan servicing company, and they're trying to shed paper, but that brings me back to the don't drop it or you'll really fuck it up bad argument.
"Hey boss, here's that loan document you asked for. Woah, whu-, Oh Nooooo!"
*crash*
"Jetson! You're FIRED!"

I like to call it the NEWTON, soon everyone will have one...

OOPS, we're almost bankrupt, time to call uncle Gatesy.

The iRex iLiad eBook reader with 8" touch screen and WiFi was available for a while already. They sell it for $700 in US.

10" is too big for me, hard to carry.

Screen on Kindle is better: almost no glare.

Correction: Screen of Sony reader is better.

aren't these things supposed to be small and compact so you can carry them instead of carrying books?

Is the screen on the Harlin whiter than the Sony? It kind of looks like it from the pics. I haven't seen the Kindle in person, but the thing that turned me off about the Sony was that the background was still pretty grey. I heard that eInk was developing a higher contrast screen, but don't know if that lead anywhere.

BTW, 10" is kind of overkill; I really like the size of the Sony...large enough to for a decent amount of text, but compact enough that it isn't cumbersome.

10" inches would be perfect for drawing on, but I doubt this has pressure sensitivity. Being an artist, that kinda kills it for me. They rarely gear these things towards artists though, meh.

The design of that thing reaffirms why Chinese often just stick to ripping off other shit instead.

I like the oversized screen, but not the oversized price. Someone needs to start a $100 eReader project.

@Sunatic: actually, I'd love a big screen ebook reader for technical papers. Squinting at small text and figures in scientific journals is bad enough when they're full size, I imagine looking at them on a typical paperback-sized reader would be awful.

Unless they keep the price below $600 (and even then really) I don't see how this can compete with the iRex iLiad. The iLiad has stronger specs in almost every category and uses a Wacom sensor board. People may not be aware but the device is hackable and there is a dev community for it.

I'm hoping the price drops before I can no longer resist the urge to buy one.

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EVAN394: I am going to play devils advocate here, but WTF would I drop $700 scrilla when I can pick up the paper back for 24.99

I've been looking at these things since the sony reader came out. I still think they need to come down in price (to about $200).

I'm not too interested in the book buying/reading aspect. But, I would like to stick a crapload of digitized technical documentation on them.

Imagine, carrying around a whole library of programming books, motherboard manuals, etc, on one device.

I actually like the smaller readers, unless I'm going to be using one of these for a textbook, because textbooks are, for some reason, consistently massive in comparison. Even then, I dunno. There's something about being able to flip to a page to try to find what you want in a textbook, or being able to sell the thing off when you're done with it (old books appreciate in value, depending).

I have a sony, and my only complaint is that it still doesn't support mobipocket ebooks. yeah yeah, I knew that going in. I can hope.

Considering that I have digital versions of a lot of my textbooks (legal mind you, the textbooks come with an access code for the digital edition) this would be pretty sweet to load them all up.
I can do it on my laptop but the format would be nicer on an ebook.

So can one put in a bunch of PDFs, mark them up with the stylus and then send them back to a computer? I think that is pretty much the holy grail for scientists reading papers. I would love to have a digital database of all of the papers I read with my notes on them...

It has a bigger screen but it won't display the following words: Tibet, Democracy, Falun Gong, Dalai Lama, Tiananmen Square, or Freedom.

I'm getting stiff anticipating the first of these type gadgets I will own

If giz is going to insist on taking their own pics they really should invest in a light box.

Those pics suck.

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