Hands On: Skiff Reader

I just got a chance to run with the big - riddle , touchscreenedSkiff Reader , which is targeted at periodicals . It ’s incredibly tenuous , fabulously light , and they ’ve even got a color screen prototype — Kindle and Nook should be scared .

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I should add first that this is not a final reading — they have n’t announce pricing or availability yet — but it feels very finished and I suspect any delay in getting the Skiff to food market will be due to the storage not being quite ready . The colour version is the accurate same grade factor , and while it ’s pretty deep in the prototype stage , it was impressive . Color was minimally pixelated and pretty absolved , if obviously nowhere almost as crisp as an LCD ( or newspaper , for that topic ) . I do n’t have any info on its release appointment or toll , unfortunately .

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Once you hold it , you ’re struck by how slender and get down it is . Just a hair over 0.25 inch duncish , it ’s also tops light and feels good in the hired man — it ’s solid despite it ’s airy heft . The cover feels huge compared to the Kindle or Nook , because it is — its 11.5 - in touchscreen is immense , significantly big than even the Kindle DX ( at 9.7 inches ) . The size is actually a lilliputian sticky for reading book ( it ’s wider and tall than even a grownup hardback book ) but it ’s excellent for newspapers . The touchscreen works well , responding to both taps and swipes well , and the refresh rate is jolly safe ( meaning , it ’s still e - ink , but it ’s not slow than existing reader ) . It can also handle 12fps animation , which is pretty archaic liken to LCD but just fine for little ads or whatever .

The layout is where it really shines — it feel more like a newspaper than any other proofreader I ’ve tried . The layout are designed by the periodicals themselves , so instead of looking like a bare PDF of text , it feels like there ’s thought put into the design . To voyage through a newspaper , you’re able to sail to a section with the “ scrubber cake , ” a scroll stripe on the bottom of the CRT screen that displays each consecutive segment ’s name as you pinch through it . It ’s great ; you may go right to the arts section , sports division , whatever , and it feels entirely natural . you may also swipe on each clause to go to the next page , or swipe up and down to change font size . Highlighting and annotating both oeuvre well , and Skiff plans to mechanically upload your highlighting and notes to the swarm for accession subsequently .

cartridge clip do n’t come as well as newspapers ; it feels like nobody really know how to digitalise magazines . On the Skiff , magazine reading material is pretty bunglesome — you flip-flop through full Sir Frederick Handley Page scan , then tip a page to soar up in , at which item you have to slowly and uncomfortably trash through the zoomed varlet , with the eastward - ink refreshing every clock time you move . It ’s not a good root , but like I said , this is n’t a final release and hopefully they ’ll have function it out by then .

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Books look okay , although clearly the Skiff is designed for newspapers ; there ’s about an inch of blank space on all side when you read a Good Book , because 11.5 inches of text is a lot to gaze at . Other than that slimly unrealized touch sensation when you see idle space , al-Qur’an - reading should be no job .

The other problem I see is the store . The Kindle and Nook but waltzed into this worldly concern with monolithic and well - known store behind them , and the Skiff is creating one from dough . They ’ve get a lot of publishers behind them , but the computer memory right now is passably bare . Of course , since it ’s not out yet , this may all be a disputable spot — but I wonder if their scrappy little store can compete with Amazon and Barnes & Noble .

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