Re:Sony releases the Holy Grail: A flexible e-ink screen
by logfromblammo on Friday March 28, 2014 @05:19PM
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For research papers... maybe 50 pages including technical graphics? With a monochrome laser printer, we'll give a very high estimate of $0.10 per page, or $5 per paper. That's still 220 papers to break even, at least, and only one person can use it at a time, unlike the printer, which can be shared for the whole office.
My home printer is over 10 years old, and I still don't think I have spent more than $800 on it during that time, including consumables.
And I would recommend the Kobo Glo/Aura over the Paperwhite for paperbacks. The MicroSD card slot alone is worth it.
Re:Sony releases the Holy Grail: A flexible e-ink screen
by dragonwriter on Friday March 28, 2014 @07:44PM
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> For research papers... maybe 50 pages including technical graphics? With a monochrome laser printer, we'll give a very high estimate of $0.10 per page, or $5 per paper. That's still 220 papers to break even
Okay, so, yes, its cheaper to print paper than to carry a letter-sized, write-on-it, ereader.
OTOH, its a lot more convenient to carry one ereader if you have a lot of stuff to view than it is to carry a stack of books/research papers/etc.
Re:Sony releases the Holy Grail: A flexible e-ink screen
by breischl on Friday March 28, 2014 @05:45PM
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Fine, but you're leaving out the cost of the printer, too. And the shelves to put all the papers on, and the cost to dispose of (or recycle) them when you're done with them.
Re:Sony releases the Holy Grail: A flexible e-ink screen
by toomuchtodo on Friday March 28, 2014 @04:44PM
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YES!
This replaces your legal/letter notepad your drag meeting to meeting, not your Kindle.
Re:Sony releases the Holy Grail: A flexible e-ink screen
by officemonkey on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:12PM
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If the pad and display was good enough to keep up with handwriting, I would be all over this at work.
I've worked with Laptop or iPad/Keyboard and I can make it work, but nothing beats a pen and folio.
Re:Sony releases the Holy Grail: A flexible e-ink screen
by scholia on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:58PM
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Microsoft Surface Pro
Re:Sony releases the Holy Grail: A flexible e-ink screen
by leoc on Friday March 28, 2014 @05:56PM
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Apparently Sony's going to a legal-technology trade show to pitch this to wealthy legal firms.
Re:Sony releases the Holy Grail: A flexible e-ink screen
by anigbrowl on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:22PM
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No need to be a wealthy law firm. $1100 for an obviously deductible business expense isn't much, about the same as a quality laptop (and far less than what people used to pay for a quality laptop). You'll see people using these on CSI or some other legal-themed network TV show before the end of the year, possibly even the end of this season. If I was a TV show producer I'd be on the phone to Sony right now begging for two of them - one for the TV lawyers to use on screen, and one for me to mark up scripts on.
Re:Sony releases the Holy Grail: A flexible e-ink screen
by toomuchtodo on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:32PM
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> If I was a TV show producer I'd be on the phone to Sony right now begging for two of them - one for the TV lawyers to use on screen, and one for me to mark up scripts on.
Bones. I expect to see this on Bones shortly.
This is for reading and annotating documents, and generally replacing paper in an office or academic setting. Given then number of research papers I've printed out (thousands and thousands of pages), I can see a huge use for this. It may still not be cost effective, but is still much more environmentally friendly and saves the hassle of keeping track of all of that paper.
The paperless office has been an idea for several decades, but without devices like this that allow easy reading and annotation, we haven't been able to get there.