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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
I don't wear glasses nor need binoculars to enjoy quite a lot of reading in it. Webpages turn out ok in landscape mode, with letters about the same size/display distance ratio as in the desktop. If I have trouble clicking links, I just zoom in a bit. Same for e-books, but no need to zoom in.
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I don't mind reading on a 3" screen, nor reading on a backlit screen (both of those are nearly impossible for some people)--but I'm not bothering with a reading device with less than 8 hours of active battery life. And I want it to read both purchased ebooks and my own documents from the same menu; I don't want to switch apps or sectors or whatever to have access to my own formatted content.
I used to be willing to format my own content into ebook formats; I don't know if I would be anymore; I've gotten used to a device that reads RTF. I'd prefer one that reads RTF, DOC and HTML.
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Sure is no home theater nor anyone is expecting it to be. It's watch on the and, just as with voice, it is watchable.
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A lot of people aren't interested in watching video on a screen smaller than their palms. (Would I watch Star Trek that way? Sure. Watch a brand new movie I've never seen before? I don't think so.) And a lot of charts, tables & photos in books aren't useful at that size, and "zoom in and scroll around" completely fails to make them useful.
Smartphones do a lot of things "well enough," and that will be enough for most people. In every technological niche, however, there'll be people who need more quality than that, and there will be devices that cater to that need. They'll be more expensive than general-purpose devices because they're being made in smaller quantities, and the people who need that level of quality will pay for it.
Smartphones won't get rid of dedicated ebook devices any more than Swiss army knives got rid of the market for tweezers.