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I'm still waiting for the economically priced A4 black and white e-reader for reading research papers on.

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Yes, how is this still 800$. http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/show-digitalpaper/resource.solu...

I wish someone would try to compete.

Your comment just made me realise how much I want such device. An A4, 300-ppi ereader would be godsent.

This 13.3 inch device which is 300ppi and runs on Android is in pre-release, expected to ship in volume within a month or so. http://www.amazon.com/Onyx-13-3-Android-Flexible-Handwriting...

Android 4.0, obsolete and out of any form of support since late 2012.

I hope you don't plan to connect this to the internet.

"Android 4.0, obsolete and out of any form of support since late 2012.

I hope you don't plan to connect this to the internet."

I'll ignore the snarkiness of this comment. There aren't any other 13.3 inch e ink readers out there that run on the latest version of Android. Furthermore, Onyx have announced upgrades are coming for the Boox Max. Also, Android support contrasts this device to say the Kindle DX which you can't use with your favourite reading apps etc.

Why, what would happen? Would it be worse than using, say, an S3? If you're talking about security, you'd be fine if you didn't do any shopping/banking etc. It's an dreaded essentially.

Hopefully this will make your dream come through. I hope for an e-reader that has lots more CPU power, which will process PDF fast and properly.

Have you tried using your E Reader as a VNC client? I did that with my Kobo to use my Laptop in daylight and it worked quite well.

You and me both. Luckily my Kindle DX still has some fight left in it, but I will miss it when it finally kicks.

I'm more interested in "responsive" research papers. Once you write your source in LaTeX, it shouldn't be difficult to compile it in a format that fits on a regular e-book reader.

Pandoc does this reasonably well already in my experience. (Assuming you have access to the source tex files, of course.)

IPad works really well for me for reading pdf papers. Plus, with an app like iAnnotate, it's easy to highlight text and add notes, which is cumbersome on kindle.

Some people (myself included) cannot read long-form content on backlit screens.

Not sure if you count ~$700 as "economically priced" but there are folks working on one as an IndieGogo project: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/13-3-inch-android-e-reade...

http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/good-e-reader...

hopefully this will come out at some point

I'm sure it will come out soon... :-(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_Logic#The_QUE_proReade...

Onyx Boox Max 13.3 preorders are shipping now and is up on Amazon.

Only entry I can find says "Currently unavailable" and does not list a price. But looks just like the Sony DP, hopefully it's a lot cheaper?

It's €650 I believe. Specs are much better than Sony DP plus it runs Android so you can get apps from the app store. I thought it was 300dpi but just read a bit more and I think it's actualy 207dpi.

There are people who got devices in the preorder discussing it here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=267140&pag...

There's also a few videos on Youtube, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glXRWQJOclI

*Edit: €585 before tax, €696 incl tax: http://ereader-store.de/en/28-13-3-display

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