I have seen a lot of news in mainstream newspapers about e-paper lately, a good sign, it seems that new readers as the Kindle are breaking the e-reading curse. The last new I read in El Pais (via Tech Crunch) is that Amazon is planning an oversized version of their Kindle for textbooks. Schools and universities are the more obvious application area for e-readers in my opinion. Heavy textbooks with a limited use time, kilos of printed articles. Think the environmental benefit of one kindle vs all the textbooks any kind of student (university, high school, primary,…) needs. A possible LCA study, anyone?

I will keep an eye on this. I read most articles in my Sony Reader, but the transformation from PDF A4 to the reader size is not optimal, neither its horizontal view is. Personally I think that a specific reader for the academic environment would be a killer device for the electronic paper.