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January 12, 2009 3:29 PM PST

Podcast: Plastic Logic's answer to the Kindle

by Larry Magid

As Amazon.com proved with its popular Kindle, consumers are interested in reading books on handheld devices. Plastic Logic has developed its own reading device, which is thinner and more durable than the Kindle and is aimed mostly for reading business documents. Joe Eschbach, Plastic Logic's vice president of marketing, explains in this interview.


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by oldReader January 21, 2009 2:54 AM PST
Thanks for the PlasticLogic podcast. There is a thing that is not made clear to me not in the podcast nor on the Plastic Logic site: Will be possible to increase the FONTS of the displayed documents on the device, to ease old people reading ?
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