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This is an excellent hardware project! Open hardware e-reader is definitely a step in the right direction. However, I like to believe that the future of books
by marvindanig 5y ago
This is an excellent hardware project! Open hardware e-reader is definitely a step in the right direction.
However, I like to believe that the future of books is independent of hardware. Platform agnostic and liberated from hardware––so to speak. If hardware is the go-to consumer experience, then the dead-tree medium isn't doing bad either.
The real deal is a pure software solution that blends the world of books and the web together into a single unified resource that is both open and accessible to everyone. A Netflix of books, perhaps–although, I know this idea has failed a couple of times already. Just my 2 cents.
- jhgb 5y agoTrue, many a time it's been the software that ruined a good e-book idea. Even just the idea of ePub seems to have been hampered by lack of good software.
- marvindanig 5y agoExactly! Software has shortchanged the idea of books, which is a consumer product, with the idea of files, which spawned originally for only enterprise use-cases like the MS Word, PDF, and what not.