Here’s a cool idea that goes the Kindle one better. Not surprisingly, it’s a student project. I wonder how much Amazon’s designers made while not thinking of this:

“A concept from a student named Nedzad Mujcinovic at Monash
University could very well stoke the fires of competition if
his Livre ever makes it to store shelves. The system uses an
e-ink screen overlaid with a touch surface, thus forgoing the
multitudinous buttons of the Kindle for an ultra-simple,
gesture-based input scheme. Pages can be turned by sliding
your finger from corner to corner, though double- and triple-
finger gestures will advance the book by ten and 50 pages,
respectively. Most notable for real book fans is the inclusion
of a leather stitched cover, meant to evoke the look and feel
of the device’s analog counterpart.”

Is the first downloadable eBook-readable museum catalog out there somewhere?

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