E-paper, and real e-books

Now, I described this to Dad a week or so ago, and I went and didn't blog it. Hey ho, this idea wasn't going to make me rich. Earl Mardle:

I think most of all that we will end up with something that loooks, and feels, like a small paperback book. These were developed because they are an excellent way to carry and consume information. Retaining their form, including their flexibility, will make sense, but they will have a wireless connection to download and update your personal news service, receive your mail, and your marked and graded essay, your liesure library and you textbooks, all of them, stored in the spine and available at instantly.

It needs to go a step further. I need to be able to annotate the things in that e-book, to drop them into categories, and all with a "pen", not with a keyboard. At the very least I need to be able to run through incoming news, and mark the few things that I actually want to do something with so that when I sit down at a "real" computer they, and only they, are all there.

I suppose you could build touch screens into oversized covers, so whichever page you turn to, you have virtual scholars margins to write in.

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[Gabage]

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