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Originally Posted by mdmorrissey
I predict they will be replaced very soon by tablets or netbooks with improved displays, portability, and battery life -- which are the only (current) advantages of e-readers.
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This is kind of a weird post - as soon as tablets get a display as good as an e-reader, battery life as good as an e-reader, and are as portable as an e-reader, they will replace e-readers?
I can't say that I disagree with this particularly, although I'm skeptical that tablets will be able to do this, since the very attribute of e-ink readers that makes them so readable and gives them such good battery life (the e-ink screen) would, if added to a tablet, make the tablet unable to do the other things tablets do well... like show videos or surf the internet fluently.
There's a cost issue, too, although I think that if there were a device that was as good of a reader as my Kindle, and as good of a tablet as an iPad, many people would pay $500 for this.
But, as others have suggested, I think that what we'll eventually see are improved e-ink tablets at something like $60. But I don't think we'll see this for a few tablet generations, since I think that there's still a decent amount of room for improvement with e-ink.