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Originally Posted by Teyrnon
I can only speak for myself but to me anything over $200 makes me balk a little. Maybe I'm just too cheap.
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It's not a matter of "too cheap;" it's a lot of money to devote to a single-purpose device. I read ebooks on a second-hand PDA for two years before I decided that I really would get that much use out of an ebook reader. And I researched the options first, because it'd be rough to get one, decide it was okay, but I'd really rather have another one that cost $40 more, but I can't possibly afford two of them.
E-ink devices occasionally get as low as $200 (and the Astak mini should be out soon at that price), but most of them are going to cost more than that. I don't think they'll get to the $150 range unless the DRM market collapses... at which point, they'll actually become convenient & useful to college students, and get enough sales to bring down the per-unit cost.