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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
When Pogue spends three hours a day reading novels, or something other than tech blogs and press releases, I'll listen to him. Maybe he does already, but his writing about ereaders in the context of personal computing/multimedia devices suggests that he doesn't know wtf he's talking about.
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I'm not sure I'd be that harsh. His reviews of the original Nook and the Kindle have merit. I think the problem (at least from an e-ink perspective) is that he's inordinately fond of tablets. He seems convinced that dedicated readers are doomed, because "there's an app for that". What I find odd about that is that he's actually a photography enthusiast.
Even the most meager of cell phones can take pictures now. It actually takes some work to find a cell phone that
can't take a picture. And yet, Pogue hasn't been calling for the death of dedicated cameras the way he has for the death of e-readers. (And he's not alone in that, of course.)