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Groter is niet altijd beter De Telegraaf
Nu Apple zijn iPad, mét kleurenscherm, video-ondersteuning en internetbrowser gepresenteerd heeft, lijkt de vorige generatie van langzame, monochrome e-readers hopeloos ouderwets. Wat deze zogenaamde ‘single-purpose’-apparaten echter voorhebben op de nieuwe übergadget van Steve Jobs is het gebruik van de eInk-technologie die het lezen vanaf het scherm een stuk rustiger voor de ogen maak. Voor mensen die van plan zijn veel te lezen op hun draagbare apparaat, lijkt de e-reader dus nog steeds de beste keuze.
De Kindle 2, de eerste reader van Amazon die in Nederland verkrijgbaar was, was een handzaam en gebruiksvriendelijk apparaat met een scherm ter grootte van een bladzijde van een pocket. Handig voor het lezen van romans, maar krantenpagina’s of PDF-bestanden met afbeeldingen komen natuurlijk niet zo goed tot hun recht op dat 6-inch schermpje. Daarom ontwikkelde Amazon de DX, met een scherm dat ongeveer even groot is als de Kindle 2 in zijn geheel.
Why Current eReaders Won’t Work
There has been a lot of interest lately in eReaders and electronic books and with the expected release Amazon’s new “Kindle v2.” So I thought, as an avid reader and self-confessed bibliophile, that I would offer my opinions to the world on why the current crop of eReaders will not work. The primary problems right now include the price of the reader unit and the lack of a cross-platform format, but the problems don’t stop there. Publishers also need to rethink the way they market books.
eReader ContendersThere are a few different eReader units in the market today, but the top contenders are obviously the Amazon Kindle, the Sony eReader, and to a lesser extent the Hanlin eReader V3 (which was sold under various names depending on what country you were in). A quick look at Wikipedia will also give you the names of other eReader devices—The Digital Reader 1000 and The Iliad by iRex Technology, the Cybook Gen3 by Bookeen, as well as some other lesser-known devices. All of these devices use the same sort of display technology called electronic paper which was designed to mimic the appearance of conventional paper and claims to be less fatiguing for the reader’s eyes.
I believe that the manufacturers of eReading devices need to stop, step back and look at the design of their device before they get too excited about electronic books. For starters, let’s look at how people hold a book—Most readers will hold a book in one hand, generally using their thumb on the spine of the book to hold it open and their fingers to support the book, they’re not going to hold your 7″ by 5″ device in two hands as you see in so many advertisements, it’s just too uncomfortable. So the design of your eReader needs to have two equally-weighted halves to it, possibly even two screens as people (in the Western world) naturally want to read from left to right. A two screen model could also have the advantage of allowing one screen to refresh while the user is reading the other screen, and having the ability of using one screen to perform other functions such as dictionary searches, bookmarking, indexing, etc while the other screen displays the current content the user is reading.
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Amazon Kindle 2 hands-on review Boy Genius Report- Feb 28, 2009
Boy Genius ReportAmazon Kindle 2 hands-on reviewBoy Genius Report, NYLeading up to the Kindle 2 we’ve been through a Sony PRS-505, an Amazon Kindle 1 and an Irex Iliad so we had high hopes for Amazon’s new Jesus-reader. Is it up to snuff? Did it fall flat on its slim, sexy, 3G-connected face?