Comments on: E-ink writer, please?

By: sensitivesoul

sensitivesoul — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:39:52 +0000

Ditto what everyone else has said so far! It’s pretty much on the level of a disability for me…I’m unable to do a lot of jobs/have put off further schooling because I can’t work with computer screens for any length of time. This invention would be life-changing for me.

By: Yosimiti

Yosimiti — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:02:19 +0000

hey folks,

please email the folks at noteslate to include an ability to type on their product. They’ve created a product that enables users to write on eink

http://www.noteslate.com/

By: Rami

Rami — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 03:17:57 +0000

I would do anything for an e-ink typewriter. I don’t want internet, I don’t want to browse, I don’t want a hard disk, I just want an e-ink typewriter that is light, had a good screen, and has a usb port. I suppose having no internet would block several important uses, but the point is we need an item designed for real work!

By: Azad

Azad — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:29:20 +0000

That would be a great idea! Apart from journalists and writers, I can assume that grad students would also want one. Writing a master’s or PhD thesis/dissertation requires many hours of reading AND writing at the same time. LCD isn’t the answer!

@Pablo: The dualbook propoerty of Entourage Edge might work for some, but I want a device that does one thing (typewriting in e-ink) and do it good and long enough before a battery charge is required. e-ink reader capability added to such an e-ink typewriter.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:19:17 +0000

I, too, want some sort of e-ink or e-paper editor for emails and blog posting, or even novel writing!

Regular displays hurt my eyes!

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:38:50 +0000

So buy an Entourage Edge. It’s everything u want and more but it’s f@# expensive…

By: Roger Ford

Roger Ford — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:21:32 +0000

I would love to use something with an e-ink display and a decent word processor. I have epilepsy with light sensitivity. Using a computer has become difficult, and I must fit short periods of use into times when I am apparently well controlled. One small seizure and the computer must be turned off. It’s no way to work.

I have written Amazon about marketing a writer’s version of its Kindle and Apple about marketing an e-ink version of the iPad. I haven’t got to any display makers yet. Sony says on its website that it doesn’t read unsolicited ideas from consumers. Sounds like other Japanese companies – top-down consumerism.

By: George Glikofridis

George Glikofridis — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:39:35 +0000

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10.1 E Ink screen, (E Ink like Kindle 2 or Sony Reader, not E Paper or PixelsQI hybrid one.) The display it would be absolutely not backlighted. A very small SSD 16GB drive is also enough. The GB amount depend on you. You decide the OS.

A totally full size keyboard, (something like the one you find on a MacBook Air for example), and what you decide as a pointing device.

The display it would be a 360 degrees turnable display based upon a cylindrical container. The container is for the battery. The battery it self it would be a cylindrical battery suited for the above cylinder. And it would be removable. Because the point is that the user can use normal A batteries in the place of the rechargeable one.
The display when totally turned with the back touching the bottom of the computer the notebook it would be turn in ebook reader. And when turned again as a normal notebook screen it would be a screen for the computer. At the upper space the display it would have the keys for ebook reading. Page up, page down, ecc.

The cylinder (container of the battery) it would have at the left side a coin opening door for the battery. And at the right side a usb port. The notebook it would not have any other communication port except the above usb port. This port it would also used for the battery cable charger.

It would have a headphone/speaker out port but no built in speakers.

Also, and this is very important: Avoid at any cost the fan! No fan! I would prefer an ARM processor than the Atom or any other if this is avoiding the fan!

There were would be no power button. Once the lid is open the device it would powered on. Once is closed it would be powered down in shutdown or in sleep. This would be user selectable.
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The above “dream machine” it is on ideas deposit on the wepc.com site. An ASUS site. This is my idea about a notebook I dreamed for years. I am a writer and I know what it means sitting for hours in front of a tft display. (I do not want to remember the cold cathode one…)

Hope someone can make something like that one day.

P.S. I am using a Macbook Air with an SSD.

By: M.Hat

M.Hat — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:12:00 +0000

I would also love to be able to buy an e-ink word processor writer/reader with a decent plug-in keyboard. This would cost more and might require a larger and more expensive rechargable battery, but that doesn’t bother me.

I would use it to read books and papers, do my daily writing with it, and so on, thus saving my eyes from strain.

Nearly every professional writer in the world–and millions of others, as well– would buy such a device, if it existed. Come on Japan or China, what are you waiting for? Build it and they will come to your store.

As for Internet applications, of course I’d keep on using my regular computer. But I still long for a real, genuine
e-writer/reader with external keybard

By: Andrew Durham

Andrew Durham — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:17:58 +0000

OMG Yes! Please, please, please, an e-ink writing device. Pair it with a folding keyboard or a simple plastic, folding overlay for a touch-sensitive screen for tactile feedback. Until the documents read on e-ink readers can be written, edited, and published on screens that HOLD STILL, the e-ink revolution will not even really have begun.

Regular screens irritate the eyes, derail trains of thought, and alter emotional states. How do I know? By direct introspection. Not since the typewriter have we writers have had anything decent to look at while we wrote. No wonder the world’s going to hell so fast.

How can makers of e-ink devices not get this? They think only in terms of consumption of text and data. What about the production of that data? What about the millions and millions of content consumers who are also content producers? Why are these screens terrible to read on but okay to write on?

Plastic Logic, Sony, Kindle: please wake up.