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I Want a Kindle Killer

Posted by Unknown on from the newton-rises-from-the-grave dept.

lpress (707742) writes "Amazon's Kindle is a good e-reader and they've sold around 40 million units, but it is far from perfect. It could be significantly improved with speech recognition for commands and text entry, a well-designed database for marginal notes and annotations, and integration with laptop and desktop computers. Google, Apple and Microsoft all have device design and manufacturing experience as well as stores that sell books and other written material. A Kindle-killing e-reader would be low-hanging fruit for Apple, Google or Microsoft — think of the competition if they each built one!" Handwriting as an input method would be nice too; a friend in college had one of the experimental Windows XP tablet PCs, and it was great for note taking and document annotation.

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  1. Amazon sells Kindle killers by kruach+aum · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're called "hammers."

  2. Re:The Nook is/was excellent by Noah+Haders · · Score: 3, Funny

    you can type backwards on a keyboard that faces away from you? hardcore, man.