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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
If the device is intended to display ebooks, has built in software to display them (and perhaps software and connectivity to enable getting them), what real difference does color and fast refresh bring to it?
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I guess I'm just afraid that they will lose the focus of being primarily a device for reading on, and just tag the reader part on to all the other cool stuff. One reason I like the Kindle so much is that Amazon has shown itself to be dedicated to the Kindle being an ereader first and foremost. But will that change once ereaders have the option of adding other things (like video)?
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Originally Posted by cmdahler
When eInk itself gains these capabilities and Amazon's 4th or 5th generation Kindle is essentially an iPad with an eInk screen, are you going to yank your hair out with irritation at everyone calling their multipurpose eInk devices "ereaders" because they're color and are basically just tablet computers?
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By then what an ereader is will have changed. They will still be easy on the eyes, and (hopefully) still be devoted to being an ereader, not a mini computer. I personally won't be happy with an "ereader" that thinks it is a "mini computer"/tablet until they can be and still be great at reading on (good interface mainly).
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Originally Posted by cmdahler
Thus, your irritation is pedantic. When the iPad is held in a portrait aspect ratio, it essentially mimics a printed page from a hardback book. If I buy the iPad primarily to read books, considering its other functions as a web browser to be secondary because I don't use those functions hardly at all (I bought my iPad as simply hands-down the best and most functional PDF ereader on the market today - yes, I said ereader!), does that not make it the perfect ereader for me?
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For you, yes, but for most (I'll admit I'm guessing here) people, reading on a backlit screen for any long period of time is unbearable. I bought an ereader partly because I can't stand to read on a computer screen for long at all. So, yes, for you it is great, but for a lot of people it wouldn't work at all.
BTW, can you explain to me why anyone would choose PDF as the format of choice over, say, ePub or Mobi?