Student-oriented Papyrus could be e-book reader 2.0
The future is interconnected, and that’s where the Papyrus e-book reader concept gets all its strength. Designed to be a low-cost and better alternative to current generation e-book readers, the Papyrus will be a student-oriented e-book reader that will take advantage of collaboration and connectivity. It’ll have a stylus-based touchscreen where contents on the current page can be tagged, to be gone back to at a later time or answered, just like discussion threads in a forum. The designers hope to put its price at lower than $100 in order to hit a far larger market than today’s e-readers can, and can last for up to 30 hours, which seems reasonable since most people can only really keep reading for a few hours a day. We’re convinced that the Papyrus certainly looks good on paper (pun intended), but the question is, who will have the will to realize such a concept? That’s right, unfortunately, this is only a concept. For now at least. I guess I’ll have to stick with my good old paperbacks, then.
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It’s about time a sub $100 e-book reader is released. From what I’ve read in different forums, a large number of people read their e-books on cheap pdas and even cell phones because they can’t afford an exorbitantly priced amazon kindle or a sony reader. I myself am a victim of this phenomenon. No matter how good or bad the connectivity option of the papyrus is, if it has a decent battery life and is tagged below $100, it will sell like crazy. I’ll be buying one myself.
on April 19, 2008 at 10:39 PM - LINKSee you in line for the Papyrus then, Tahsin. I’m fond of reading ebooks on my mobile phone myself because dedicated devices like a Sony Reader or the Amazon Kindle just seem like overkill, especially since they’re both still too pricey. I’ve always thought that an e-reader would be OK if it only had a standard word processing program that could open up standard word docs. Or even just .txt files. But that’s just my opinion. Still, manufacturers of readers should be reconsidering their choices, I think.
on April 20, 2008 at 04:14 AM - LINK