Did the cool-er survive? What effect did the pink plastic have? Have been waiting for the resultant article, but nothing yet (unless I’m missing something)

Wee bit difficult to take a normal PC on a plane. Not sure the cabin staff would like you setting up a midi tower workstation and 24″ TFT in the aisle! And even the smallest and longest lasting (in terms of battery) netbook is far larger and will die far quicker than a dedicated eBook reader. Not to mention one-handed reading – while sipping a pool-side drink, or lying in bed – is rather problematic on any kind of PC, unless you have the hands of Ray Clements! And most laptops/netbooks don’t have touchscreens (least not any cheap ones), so making annotated notes would be reduced to typing – hardly conducive to recreating the simplicity and ease (not to mention quiet!) of merely scrawling on the page.

Shame about the Readius really – I personally thought that had oodles of promise, as you could have had quite a large screen hidden inside the device, to be unfurled when needed.

Ach well, will wait for the next generation and see if any grab my fancy then.