Another e-reader
January 12th 2010 09:34
Just when you thought you were getting a handle on all the e-readers on the market, along comes a new British-developed one from Plastic Logic which has been in the pipeline for a decade.
This one is the Que ProReader. Don't ask me how to pronounce the word, Que - I can only assume that it's the same as 'queue' (which already has more than enough vowels in it, and probably could drop a couple without harm).
The Press Releases from Plastic Logic's Que company read pretty fulsomely; in other words, they sell the machine all along the line with great enthusiasm and inducement to buy (or pre-buy in this case - the Que reader won't be out till around April this year. Not that fulsomeness or inducement are necessarily true or untrue: auto insurance reviews are just as fulsome ).
Meanwhile, the Que seems a little larger than some similar readers, and it's certainly aiming to Really Long Link magazines look good on it. They're not actually marketing this item to the general reader, but to people who need to read. Which means business people, basically. The aim is to save them carting around huge files of material in their bugling briefcases. The reader isn't only lighter to carry than a bundle of paper, or even some magazines, but the '8GB model holds up to 75,000 documents or the equivalent of the contents of up to 75 filing cabinets¹.
If you need to read more than that in a year, you're in trouble. And because all those 75,000 documents are searchable, you can access stuff far more quickly - once you've got it all on there. Pity the poor PA who has to 're-file' all the boss's stuff so he can read it on his Que. And then there are the blokes who write out stuff on programmes like OneNote. Fine, if an e-reader can pick up the info; not so good if it can't.
Anyway, these are small issues. Check out the PR stuff on the Que, and I think you'll be pretty impressed. Check out this short piece from the Guardian as well, for another opinion.
This one is the Que ProReader. Don't ask me how to pronounce the word, Que - I can only assume that it's the same as 'queue' (which already has more than enough vowels in it, and probably could drop a couple without harm).
The Press Releases from Plastic Logic's Que company read pretty fulsomely; in other words, they sell the machine all along the line with great enthusiasm and inducement to buy (or pre-buy in this case - the Que reader won't be out till around April this year. Not that fulsomeness or inducement are necessarily true or untrue: auto insurance reviews are just as fulsome ).
Meanwhile, the Que seems a little larger than some similar readers, and it's certainly aiming to Really Long Link magazines look good on it. They're not actually marketing this item to the general reader, but to people who need to read. Which means business people, basically. The aim is to save them carting around huge files of material in their bugling briefcases. The reader isn't only lighter to carry than a bundle of paper, or even some magazines, but the '8GB model holds up to 75,000 documents or the equivalent of the contents of up to 75 filing cabinets¹.
If you need to read more than that in a year, you're in trouble. And because all those 75,000 documents are searchable, you can access stuff far more quickly - once you've got it all on there. Pity the poor PA who has to 're-file' all the boss's stuff so he can read it on his Que. And then there are the blokes who write out stuff on programmes like OneNote. Fine, if an e-reader can pick up the info; not so good if it can't.
Anyway, these are small issues. Check out the PR stuff on the Que, and I think you'll be pretty impressed. Check out this short piece from the Guardian as well, for another opinion.
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