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> > I am having a hard time understanding why an iPad or e-Reader would
> be better than a second monitor.
>
> That's easy. The second monitor can only be used when you are seated at
> your desk. You can't read it if you stand up, or if you lean back and
> put your feet up, or if you sit in your visitor chair for a change of
> scene, or if you go to into the lab or to the break room for a while.
> You are stuck sitting at your desk to be able to read.
The wife and I are getting each other Kobo readers for Christmas.
I'm getting the e-Ink one, but she insisted on the color (therefore
backlit) one. I forsee her wanting to swap for her late-night
reading, given that she spends even more time than I do in front
of a computer display.
I will probably use mine for exactly what Fred suggested, in
addition to all the usual recreational-reading uses to which
one would normally put such a device.
However, this raises a marketing/product-niche opportunity.
Aside from industry newsletters and technical journals, the
most likely content that I might care to read from the comfort
of any-other-room-but-my-cubicle would be project specs and
engineering docs. If the company security people think about
that for a moment, they'll probably realize that my taking
my reader home with such content is no more a threat to
intellectual-property security than when paper printouts of
same go home in people's briefcases and back-packs.
But still, if the document in electronic form could be
encrypted, I'm sure everybody would feel better about
the situation.
There's probably an app for encrypting/decrypting files
on iPads, Samsung tablets, and other general purpose
tablet and slate computers, as well as (shudder!) on
Smartphones. But since dedicated eReaders are pointedly
NOT that general-purpose, they don't have the capability
and don't have a way to bring it onboard after purchase.
The first eReader vendor to include user-operable
encryption of documents will have some bragging rights
that would stand them in good stead in corporate markets.
Hmm.
Hmm. Outside high-tech, I can see that feature being
useful for, say, studios and producers wanting to keep
a tight leash on scripts and screenplays.
Thoughts?
-k
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