{"id":264596,"date":"2008-09-11T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T17:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/09\/11\/plastic-logics-pretty-cool-looking-e-reader\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:51","slug":"plastic-logics-pretty-cool-looking-e-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/09\/11\/plastic-logics-pretty-cool-looking-e-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Logic&#39;s Pretty Cool Looking E-Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at DEMOfall 08, Plastic Logic revealed a pretty damn slick looking e-reader that could (in theory) end up competing with the Kindle&#8212;especially in terms of business users.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdaily.com\/content\/view\/39267\/113\/\">this video<\/a> the reader is a 8 1\/2&#8221; x 11&#8221; full-sized reading touch-screen that&#8217;s about the size of a notebook. It&#8217;s much bigger and sleeker than the Kindle, and allows for easy transfer of all Office documents, PDFs, etc. You can even annotate documents by drawing with your fingers or using a pop-up keyboard. And when you do this, the file is automatically saved as a revised <span class=\"caps\">PDF<\/span> or Word file or whatever . . .<\/p>\n<p>For business functions, this actually seems pretty cool. Using Bluetooth someone at a meeting can provide everyone with a PowerPoint file or a different report. (Although there&#8217;s no word on whether this will help make PowerPoint demonstrations aesthetically palatable&#8212;probably not.)<\/p>\n<p>In terms of regular readers though, this thing is miles away from supplanting the Kindle. Until it can wirelessly access hundreds of thousands of books, it&#8217;s actually a pretty awkward devise. Something that&#8217;s less convenient to carry than a book, that&#8217;s more difficult to read (at least in terms of fiction, because who really likes reading literature in a full-page format? Aside from slush pile reading interns, that is), and is primarily geared to only presenting your own files. . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at DEMOfall 08, Plastic Logic revealed a pretty damn slick looking e-reader that could (in theory) end up competing with the Kindle&#8212;especially in terms of business users. As you can see in this video the reader is a 8 1\/2&#8221; x 11&#8221; full-sized reading touch-screen that&#8217;s about the size of a notebook. It&#8217;s much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,14906,14896],"class_list":["post-264596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-future-of-reading","tag-plastic-logic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356936,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264596\/revisions\/356936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}