On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 02:44:00PM +0530, Mahesh Murthy wrote: > Do we really need specialised devices? > > My 12-year old is an android geek and does all his reading, surfing, video > watching and listening on his $200 Samsung Galaxy 3, where he downloads and > stores all the books, videos and music that interests him. And Kindle is > just another app on it.
My point exactly. Either an iPad or an Android device are 'good enough' even today. Extrapolating where this particular trend goes is not very difficult. More solid state bits, way better display, even longer battery runtimes. And don't try reading a 100+ MByte color PDF or DJVU on a Kindle. Nevermind that a DIY library will be most likely have a web interface, with WLAN or 3/4G access.
