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I'm not planning to replace my reader until the screen quits working. It had the features I wanted when I bought it ... it was what I wanted ... so why should the fact that other readers have different (even "better") features now make me change my mind? There are cars that are faster than mine, too, but I'm not about to throw my car away just to buy a faster one. This idea that something we have suddenly isn't good enough, that we-who-were made a bad decision when we bought it, leads to a lot of spending, and a lot of disposable ... everything ... but does it really make us happier? Would I be happier if I got rid of a perfectly good e-book reader and bought a new one, out of some kind of misguided buyer's remorse?
I look for what works, and I use it. "New for the sake of the new" has never done anything for me. Not only does this save a lot of stress, but it saves a lot of money I can spend on different gadgets (or more books) instead of buying the ones I already own over and over again.
My next ebook reader hasn't been made yet. It'll be magazine-sized and full color. I'll use it, of course, to read colorful magazines. As long as my current one keeps working, I see no reason to replace it for reading books.
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