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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Probably for the same reason they don't have audio players. It's not necessary for reading a book.
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You do realize that sometimes books have long lines that are easier to understand when not broken up?
Technical books for example.
Not to exclude the possibility that someone uses a large font - one of the key features of eBooks after all - and might want to have more than 3 words per line.
I fail to see why landscape mode would be such a huge investment of time to develop. It's one of the little things that wouldn't hurt anyone but make lots of people happy.
As for audio players: maybe not necessary, but nice to have. I'm reading on my way to work - and listening to music. So I have to carry two devices.
MP3 playback is a matter of a chip nowadays. There isn't really much reason not to include it - at least I don't see what technical reasons there could be. We KNOW the EB600 had this.
It's a matter of philosophy though. (And perhaps money, but I think an MP3 chip is about what, 10 bucks top?)