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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Do they really need to be portable? Weight would be important, unless you read sat up, but why would you need to carry it around?
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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Same reason I carry a book everywhere I go. Obviously, it wouldn't be for everyone.
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Originally Posted by Clancy_s
I need one I can carry around - for decades I've taken care never to be without a book, in case I have to wait around for something. Nowadays it's my ereader. 
However I expect to have 2 devices eventually - a large one (A4 would be great) for home / work / textbooks and magazines and a small one for novels. |
The above two comments are the same for me. I prefer to always have books with me at all times, and carrying one ebook reader loaded with hundreds of ebooks is much more practical than carrying a few physical books (pbooks). If I'm limited to one ebook reader I'd prefer one that I can easily carry with me, and my current ereader is the perfect size for this.
Occasionally I still carry around a few pbooks (mostly comic book trade paperbacks like "The Sinestro Corps War") that are not yet practical as an ebook. That's one of the reasons I'm looking forward to getting an ebook reader with a larger high-resolution (and I hope color) screen.