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Originally Posted by temp
i've been thinking. the e-reader is actually a low budget computer with very comfortable to read screen and low weight. wouldn't it be better if we just call it an eink-computer or something like that?
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You've made me wonder why we still call a computer a computer. When it got its name, that's basically what it did - compute complicated sums faster than a person could do it. Now compute is what it probably does least of all - maybe when you have the calculator application open or update a spreadsheet.
For the rest of the time it's more likely to be surfing the web, managing your email, recording your keystrokes in your latest best-seller, helping you to enact the life of a tomb raider or a counterstrike team member, etc.
So what's your new word for a computer? E-reader or even e-book reader seems to fit the bill wonderfully for something with which I spend 99.76% of my time reading e-books!
