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The e-ink screen is the major selling point for me and i could not care less about a kindle4 with a color lcd screen. I use it (and want to use it) only for reading.

If Amazon want to sell a tablet-like device, adding a "kindle tablet" to their line-up would be a wiser idea, imho.

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Agreed.

I'm still hoping for e-ink monitors. I'd be willing to shell out decent money for a large e-ink screen. It'd need color and would have to be faster than current screens. For writing and for reading mostly-text webpages, I think that a just slightly faster e-ink screen with 16 or 32 colors would be a real boon.

I've never seen one in person, so I can't vouch for any of its properties, but Pixel Qi netbook screen replacements are available: http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKPQ...

This would seem like the reasonable choice. Or, just leave the tablet market alone. They could, perhaps, enhance the amount of other useful features in it for the "temporary mode before bothering to find a computer" but abandon the very low power drain (mostly by frugal screen) and they're abandoning the whole niche and stepping into a strange and different land. Many others have so much more to offer in all kinds of ways except.. recharge it every few hours of use. Nope, sorry, can't do that - the tempting device is now useless to me.

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