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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Other people's choices matter as a whole. Developers don't have infinite time and resources, and there is the hope that marketing people will look at threads that have "vs." in the title, and get the right idea about what they should invest in.
So the situation is reduced to extremes:
E-ink side: LCD works fine for multimedia but ereader developers shouldn't waste time with it, I don't care if you can read on it.
LCD side: The past few years were focused only on E-ink, we got as much as we can out of it, it is time for ereader developers to look at something else.
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You have really missed my point. I have no problem with a discussion of the merits of any given device. I do think it inappropriate to make personal comments that disparage people as to their choice of reading device. If you don't like a particular device, don't buy it. But if someone has bought one and is satisfied with their choice, trying to tell them that they should have chosen some other device because it meets your ("your" in the global sense, not you personally) preferences leads to argument rather than discussion.
I see e-reading, driven by the expanding field of e-readering devices, as offering more choices to us as consumers. It also seems to opening up avenues to authors who want to publish and have difficulty getting published in the tradition press. At some point, there needs to be more standardization of format. I look forward to that day.