>1. Make an e-reader with a beautiful e-paper screen capable of displaying full color. Color drains battery life. Let this be a 2nd/3rd gen thing. Few books wi

>1. Make an e-reader with a beautiful e-paper screen capable of displaying full color. Color drains battery life. Let this be a 2nd/3rd gen thing. Few books will take advantage of full illustrations. This, however, can be huge for children's books. >2. Make the screen refresh very quickly From my hardly-ever-use of a few e-readers. Is this really a problem? >3. Give it sensible touch gestures that you never accidentally trigger, and give it very useful physical buttons. Physical buttons are a dying out thing and a signal of you being part of an older generation. ;) The people I speak to hate physical buttons. While I also love actual, physical buttons, it's a dying fashion over touch. >4. Make sure it can do everything a book can do. Can you quickly thumb through a 500 page novel on a kindle? Nope. Can you easily write something in the margin? Nope. Can you bookmark your current reading position, and also earmark a few other favorite spots in the book? Nope. This needs entirely specialized/new software. DRM also limits the usefulness of such features. Adding a highlighting/favorites feature akin to Slack that you can easily browse on a per-book level would be a huge jump forward. >5. Give it a non-tech appearance. Make the damn thing out of wood. People want flashy. Make it shiny, not wood-like. Even books aren't wood-like tomes. Additional cases/skins/stickers are for personalization, not the form-factor itself. >6. Sell it in 3 sizes from day 1: The current standard paperback-ish size, as well as a smaller smartphone-sized one, and finally a large one, like ~15 inches. Two words: production costs. E-books and e-readers need to be popular before this can be a thing. Or huge, risk-taking investments need to occur. Which is unlikely.