A new

1. An e-reader for students
and professionals

2. Information is becoming increasingly digital.

4. Millions of e-books, e-textbooks, notes,
academic articles, journals, reports, scientific
papers, reference sheets, past papers and
manuscripts.
● University moodle/blackboard sites
● Business intranets and wikis
● Public information online

5. How do people actually read this information?

7. If you want to spend time reading a document,
LCD screens can be frustrating
● Strains eyes
● Causes headaches
● Distracting

8. It is simply more comfortable to read from
paper
- But -

9. printing notes is wasteful. and expensive

10. physical notes get HEAVY. limits accessibility

11. not portable!

12. Solution
E-Reader for academics and professionals
● E-Ink - display looks like paper, not LCD
● Carries thousands of documents

13. Uses e-paper
● looks like ink on paper
● as comfortable to read on
as paper
● low power consumption - a
single charge will last
weeks under heavy use.
● tough and durable

14. don't e-readers already exist?

15. Yes - however
Current e-readers do not satisfy student or
professional needs
● display too small to read academic texts (usually A4)
● slow handling of pdfs
● inadequate navigation interface (e-readers have been
designed for linear reading - like novels, but we flick
through documents like textbooks quickly and non-
linearly e.g. going to the back of the book for answers)

20. Annotation is also possible

26. High latent demand for these products

28. internet searches show thousands of posts like these

29. readerpro.org for more info