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The future of e-books lies with a format that's at least as easy on the eyes as paper. All of the current screen technology used is more tiring that paper, once they get something figured out that's even or better THEN e-books will take off, but not one minute before.

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The future of e-books lies with a format that's at least as easy on the eyes as paper. All of the current screen technology used is more tiring that paper, once they get something figured out that's even or better THEN e-books will take off, but not one minute before.

It's coming withing the next five to ten years. All the necessary technologies exist in the lab and will eventually be perfected. LED displays that can be printed on flexible sheets, transparant LED displays -- all things that need no backlight.

And the kicker will be scalable fonts for us ageing baby boomers. Instant large type.

I suspect that audio readers are coming in five to ten years. I suspect that it just a matter of time before there is a standardized format for encoding voice inflections. Famous actors will then licence their voices to "read" any book published in the encoded format.