What would be useful is a reading screen and a writing screen for notes
Tom Wood
· 3 months ago
If these things get hot while they run it won't be pleasant to hold. There should be a place at the bottom in the center where your thumb can fit if you hold it with one hand.
I'm starting to think the eyeglasses that show an image are going to be the best solution. Yeah, the ones that only cover one eye with a big red lens...
John Smith
· 3 months ago
E-Book wars gets strong and more and more innovations are seen everyday, the price drop, the various formats, and many. Now the structure of e- reader gets a change. This dual screen gives a feel of reading a book directly. Hope this war gives birth to more innovations.
Adeel Imran
· 3 months ago
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Cipher
· 3 months ago
A cookie cutter answer by a hits whore who haven't even read the article. Good job, Adeel.
crvenk
· 2 months ago
That's a cool comment. I am sure that cookie cutter will be upset if he sees your comment. LOL
Mayank Agarwal
· 3 months ago
Yeah right... looks real good! This will prove to a Kindle killer... and CrunchPad could also land up in real trouble... this do every thing what crunch pad is supposed to do and more....!
rommy
· 3 months ago
meh. don't see the need for two screens.
NWZ W202
· 3 months ago
Certainly this will give the feeling of paper books. But I think holding them together will be a bit difficult or uneasy.
What do you think ?
Krishna Santani
· 3 months ago
This is going to heat up ebook reader market and it has got everything which can make it a kindle (which is priced at $299) killer. This is going keep Amazon on its toes. Gear up Amazon. Its tough time ahead...
Mario Trevino
· 3 months ago
if it's touchscreen (which it is) the dual screens are pretty pointless. but i guess dual screens are the "what's in" this year... touchscreens are so 2008.
Benet M. Marcos
· 3 months ago
Good that it's cheaper. But I don't think it will be more confortable.
adilch
· 3 months ago
that would b great, surely i ll want to have one.. :)
Luka Sučić
· 3 months ago
E-Ink or LCD? It looks really promising, especially the price tag. I think color e-ink screens are about ready to conquer the market. Go go Asus :)
rame20002007
· 3 months ago
hoping for it!
Anterpreet Singh
· 3 months ago
Awesome! Will surely try it.
niubi
· 3 months ago
looks really good, hope Dubli will be selling it!
ProfZoidberg
· 3 months ago
This looks to be a typical bull**** from asus. No mention of whether eink is used. I suspect this is just an LCD screen in tablet mode - which is completely pointless and not an ereader at all. Full colour eink tech is in infancy and I doubt Asus has cracked that code to make it available for under $200.
Yuu Awaker
· 3 months ago
When I saw the news title I thought "Nintendo DS E-Reader", a card read for nintendo ds lol
dainathomas
· 3 months ago
This would be nice .. and It would be og grt help when making reports or cheching through old work ....
Best, Daina
paramendra
· 3 months ago
That warm, fuzzy feeling. :-)
Luke Janicke
· 3 months ago
Well it looks to be purely a reader. Possibly VERY good for libraries, bookshops and cafes. Will require the rise of EPUB standard. On the critical side... Useless for personal and business users. Why have a second PC device if you primary can act as a reader? Will stick with a MacBook or MacTablet/iTablet or similar.
dariomartinezb
· 3 months ago
What is "Overkill"?
2dave
· 3 months ago
For a simple linear text (such as a novel) dual page probably doesn't afford you much so why bother, but for graphically enriched texts that have been laid out with a two page spread in mind you either have to have dual pages or landscape mode.
Gus
· 3 months ago
It'd be cool to have a web browser on one side and an ereader on the other...
dyegov
· 3 months ago
Now this is something I'd buy!
You said something about browsing the web and twittering? Does it come with a browser? :O
plasticmadness
· 3 months ago
I agree with everyone that says that there's no need for 2 screens. But for some reason I can't help to think this is pretty cool.
Ryan Lalonde
· 3 months ago
Now I can read an e-reader just like a book. Unlike those silly single screened ones.
M@
· 3 months ago
I fail to see the draw of dual screens. I've been eReading since I had a PalmIII and never wished I had a second screen. I don't miss the annoying trying to hold a paperback in bed on one side. I eRead on the iPhone now and don't know why anyone needs another device to do this. Perhaps magazines or newspapers - to maintain the advertising model they developed for a large two page format... but if you ask me, I say ditch the format and make it work on an existing device.
Twilightred
· 3 months ago
I'm all for competition in the eReader market, especially something that looks to have more features than a Kindle for a lower price. I would really like to switch to an eReader from regular books but the $299 Kindle price tag is pretty steep. I hope this has some kind of one-handed mode as well. It looks a bit unwieldy.
Suezanne
· 3 months ago
If they can do a dual screen for 160 maybe someone can do a single screen for 80 bucks. (or a hundred). The low price is the part I find interesting.
inverse137
· 3 months ago
Soo...is it 2 LCD screens (or LED?) Or 2 e-ink screens?
I must say, I didn't understand the Kindle when it first came out, but reading e-ink is easier on the eyes than a computer display.
The dual screen will be nice BUT, this thing will just flat out dominate if you can fold it down to just 1 screen.
Elad Kehat
· 3 months ago
Can't see how the benefit of having a dual-screen outweighs the fact that it makes the device more bulky. Also, there's no way they can have two screens (the most expensive part of an e-reader) and such a low price without taking a lot of more important feature out. From a usage perspective, I actually find the single screen on my Sony Reader better than the dual-screen form factor of a traditional book because it lets me easily read at odd angles (e.g. lying in bed on my side).
Santosh Puthran
· 3 months ago
I would reckon a projector for ebook will be a revolutionary option. It will be bring down the cost of ebook considerably. Asus can sell the screen as an accessory for people to buy.
I don't see a need for the dual screen e-readers. I hope the manufacturers change their mind.
Tony Smit
· 2 months ago
Interesting but fragile. If the device broke, would you become unhinged?
The Kindle is only good for reading anything that can be written in a cheap pocket-size paperback. That's not a problem, when I was 14 years old I read one of those paperback books about nuclear physics, and it was not written for a 8th-grader, it was a book an adult had discarded. I learned about mesons and pions and so ons.
I've tried the Sony reader at Frys Electronics and was not impressed, but it might be because I am a fast reader. I can read a page and move to the next page in a paperback faster than the Sony reader could display that page. Well, at least for pulp fiction - science fiction, sword and sorcery, biographies.
But I digress. On my desk I currrently use a 24-inch monitor in 1920x1600 resolution and wish it was a 48-in monitor in 3840x3200 resolution, I sure do like to see more information on the screen as well as have the ability to take notes in Notepad, save webpages as images, etc.
Reading PDF files even on this 24-inch screen is tiresome, if the file uses small fonts (6-point) the letters are illegible as they are too small to display, so the shown view has to be magnified, which then requires scrolling up and down on a single page to read it, which is easier than on a 10" netbook or 14" laptop but still grrrrrr. None of the current e-books can handle this kind of information density. Has anyone read the 1040 instructions on the iPhone or iPod ? Not me!
Complex, detailed images are impossible to display on such small devices. So I am looking forward to a 24-inch e-book. All I need is a backpack that will hold it and protect it (especially from rain and sprinkler spray) and I can walk anywhere with it. Except through metal detectors at the courthouse. Or school. Or airport.
And there have been 22-inch monitors made with 3840x3200-resolution displays. But they are also extremely expensive. Maybe 20 years from now they will be inexpensive portable book readers, but not now.
The dual-screen version is NOT the same as the 100 GBP version. The DS version is actually much more pricey.
DeepSkyFrontier
· 1 month ago
<a href=:http://deepskyfrontier.blogspot.com/2009/04/salvation-for-magazines.html>I don't think dual screens are a gimmick. I think they're absolutely essential. Here's the explanation I wrote back in April.
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I'm starting to think the eyeglasses that show an image are going to be the best solution. Yeah, the ones that only cover one eye with a big red lens...
http://gobblerr.blogspot.com
What do you think ?
Best,
Daina
You said something about browsing the web and twittering? Does it come with a browser? :O
I must say, I didn't understand the Kindle when it first came out, but reading e-ink is easier on the eyes than a computer display.
The dual screen will be nice BUT, this thing will just flat out dominate if you can fold it down to just 1 screen.
From a usage perspective, I actually find the single screen on my Sony Reader better than the dual-screen form factor of a traditional book because it lets me easily read at odd angles (e.g. lying in bed on my side).
http://iwaant.com/2009/09/asus-dual-screen-read...
The Kindle is only good for reading anything that can be written in a cheap pocket-size paperback. That's not a problem, when I was 14 years old I read one of those paperback books about nuclear physics, and it was not written for a 8th-grader, it was a book an adult had discarded. I learned about mesons and pions and so ons.
I've tried the Sony reader at Frys Electronics and was not impressed, but it might be because I am a fast reader. I can read a page and move to the next page in a paperback faster than the Sony reader could display that page. Well, at least for pulp fiction - science fiction, sword and sorcery, biographies.
But I digress. On my desk I currrently use a 24-inch monitor in 1920x1600 resolution and wish it was a 48-in monitor in 3840x3200 resolution, I sure do like to see more information on the screen as well as have the ability to take notes in Notepad, save webpages as images, etc.
Reading PDF files even on this 24-inch screen is tiresome, if the file uses small fonts (6-point) the letters are illegible as they are too small to display, so the shown view has to be magnified, which then requires scrolling up and down on a single page to read it, which is easier than on a 10" netbook or 14" laptop but still grrrrrr. None of the current e-books can handle this kind of information density. Has anyone read the 1040 instructions on the iPhone or iPod ? Not me!
Complex, detailed images are impossible to display on such small devices. So I am looking forward to a 24-inch e-book. All I need is a backpack that will hold it and protect it (especially from rain and sprinkler spray) and I can walk anywhere with it. Except through metal detectors at the courthouse. Or school. Or airport.
And there have been 22-inch monitors made with 3840x3200-resolution displays. But they are also extremely expensive. Maybe 20 years from now they will be inexpensive portable book readers, but not now.