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Originally Posted by mdmorrissey
My prediction is based quite simply on the failure of e-readers to do what any lap/net/book/tablet can do, which is make everything on the net readable.
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You're missing the point; by a mile, if I may say so: they are special and very much single-purpose devices that excel at what they were meant to do, i.e. display ebooks. If your needs go further all kinds of alternatives exist, as you pointed out correctly.
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They should have limited themselves to producing simple, cheap devices that would allow you to transfer a few gigs of text from the computer screen and take it to bed (and elsewhere) with you.
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Prices have fallen considerably, and will continue to do so. It's almost trivial to convert any text found on the net into an ebook any reader can display (i use Calibre for that), so I don't exactly see what problem you're having there. Also, don't forget we're all early adopters here. It's early days yet.
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... will get smaller, cheaper, more readable (e-ink or the equivalent), and more energy-efficient ...
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Yes, the next best thing is just around the corner. Nobody said ereading was a mature technology yet.