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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I'm not bothering with a reading device with less than 8 hours of active battery life.
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I don't mind that: I get on the bus and take almost an hour to get to work. Then I plug it to USB to get it to 100% by the end of the day. I get home again on bus and there's still lots of charge for the rest of the night.
sure, not so fun on long trips, specially if doing anything other than e-reading.
still, some years down the road and colorful high refresh rate e-ink screens will be the norm among all mobiles.
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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.
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that would from be the Files app menu, opening them in the proper app.
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A lot of people aren't interested in watching video on a screen smaller than their palms.
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who would be insane to do such?
still, it's available for news or humor short videos your friends mail you. It's a mildly useful bonus.
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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.
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Photos appear bright and lively when filling the whole screen and there's always zoom for details. Though I really wouldn't ever read something like comics or National Geographic on such small screen. It misses the point on having adequate "reading" on a mobile.
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Smartphones won't get rid of dedicated ebook devices any more than Swiss army knives got rid of the market for tweezers.
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I don't know. That sounds a lot like what owners of mainframes used to tell about PCs. Surely there's still mainframes around, as there are fossils.
Surely smartphones won't ever replace TVs or physical books. Not so certain about other niches. How many people buy PDAs or large stereo gear today? A personal mobile experience makes much more sense for certain things, like listening to music by yourself rather than trying to push down your bad taste on other people's ears...
In the end, I fear pocket book size will be the standard for e-books...