1. I would have page turning buttons on the edges like the kindle keyboard.
2. A remote page turner for when I am reading in bed and its on its stand by the side of the bed.

I woulld get rid of the idea of them having games because you usually get a ereader to read books not play games.

Do you mean the hardware or just the software?

I've not used a dedicated reader before. But there's lots I would add to any reader I've tried.

Yes I'd love a remote button of some sort. Even some other non-touch way of turning pages (scroll never works well).

My first biggie would be to have the backlight brightness and screen brightness set to my liking in the app. For some reason, you can only change one, but never both, from inside the app.

I'd like to be able to create macros off all sorts so I can change my settings with one or two buttons for the best reading conditions instead of constantly fiddling with the settings all the time.

I'd like a lot I suppose, and if I could programme my own app, I'd do all of it

I don't really think that ereaders can be improved in all honesty, they're fit for a purpose, and have fantastic battery life which is convenient. However what people desire today is multi-functionality, this is something that tablets and smartphones can give users, in addition to a more colourful and interactive display.

The problem is once you start adding features to an ereader it becomes less of an ereader and more of a tablet, there isn't really much of an in-between.

I'd keep my kindle 3 (the one with the keyboard) e-ink perfect for bright sunlight, page turners great etc, the only thing I'd add is the ability to turn on a back light, adjustable brightness, for reading in bed.

[Kuc1ng]

[quote]Yes I'd love a remote button of some sort. Even some other non-touch way of turning pages (scroll never works well)/quote]

2nd that!!

[baconsandwich]

I'd add a simple back or last button to my Kobo Glo. I hate having to jump through hoops when I click on the wrong book by mistake.

I only have a laptop at the moment, but I'd like to see a tablet/e-reader combination:

Multiple screens - designed like an opened book, with the ability to view the screen in either direction. At least one screen would be paper white e-ink that could be read in sunlight. Another screen would be more like a laptop, able to handle full motion video. There would be a hinged cover/mechanical keyboard that could be swung into place (covering a screen, so that it would turn into a netbook.) It would look kind of like this /\/ and the hinge could slide to a different position.

You could configure it to just have one screen visible like a tablet, both visible, or one screen and the physical keyboard. you could also just use a virtual keyboard. You could view both screens held vertically, like a hardback book, with one page on each screen. The screens would be touch-screens, and there would also be physical controls for next page and so on.

Ideally, it would be powerful enough to watch a semi-HD movie, or play flash games (real gaming can be done on a PC.) It wouldn't be limited to apps written for it, but rather it could play flash games written for the PC.

It would have at the minimum 64GB of memory, and preferably quite a bit more. There would be several connection options - wireless, bluetooth, sd card, usb, headphone jack, etc.

It would be very light, and have an extremely long battery life.

It would also print money, replicate a cool drink, and cause women to throw themselves at me... (hey, we're dreaming, right?)

[Braveheart1971]

The one innovation that I would gladly pay good money for is the ability to leaf though the book, like you can with a real book - i.e. stick your finger in the page you are currently reading, flick to the front of the book, or on ten pages, or back ten pages, or to the index at the back, or whatever, and then flick back (or back and foward if you need to).

I read a lot of non-fiction, and this is something that I really miss from old style books.

I remember seeing this demonstrated on a technology show sometime ago, but it still doesn't seem to have made it to market. Page Flip on the Kindle Paperwhite isn't quite there, but is possibly the closest yet....?

Would love to know if there is any device with this functionality, or something close....

Page turning buttons on the side of the device as opposed to the front, or only touch enabled

[cdlc]

I'd love to be able to go to the back and read the ending. It's just that sometimes I get bored and if the end is going to be crap I'd rather not bother finishing it. And yes, I often read on even if I know the ending!

I'd love to be able to go to the back and read the ending. It's just that sometimes I get bored and if the end is going to be crap I'd rather not bother finishing it. And yes, I often read on even if I know the ending!

You can already do that with a kobo. You can jump to the end of the book through sliding cursor, or go back to the beginning.

I'd love to have a turning page voice command. So that I don't have to touch it when in bed.

I'd like folders for my ebooks and better ways of organising them. I'm sure some do but looking at a kindle, an older sony and an nook simple touch they still just have long lists of books with odd category systems. I want to be able to file away and archive old sets of books out of the way for when I feel like dipping into them.

Oh and page turn buttons and touch screen so I can choose, I miss mp3 as well. Integrated sound so you can learn another language by clicking on words and hearing the pronunciation, but multimedia ideas don't seem to have taken off.

In my opinion, e-readers are just about right to fulfill their intended use, which is a dedicated tool to read books electronically with the best screen clarity and ease of use available at a reasonable cost to the consumer.

A giant leap in e-ink technology is required to bring them up to the video age. The two aspects in which e-ink technology lacks is both refresh speed and color.