On 8/11/2013 4:33 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Clearly PDF and other fixed-format products are targeted at putting ink on paper, and that's going the way of the dinosaur. At the same time, the publishing industry is very much in turmoil for the time being and only future will tell what the right replacement is.
Currently ereaders are great for reading novels and such with little typography needs. But they're terrible for textbooks and reference material, mainly because the screen is both low res and is way too small.
It's like programming with an 80*24 display (I can't believe I was able to use them!).
(I was eagerly looking at the Surface tablet when it came out, but what killed it for me was the low res display. I want to read books on a tablet, and a low res display doesn't do that very well.)
I'd like an ereader that has a full 8.5*11 display.
