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Originally Posted by HarryT
There are actually quite a few things. Long battery life, and readability in pretty much any lighting conditions in which you could read a paper book are among them.
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Not "quite a few things" -- but those two things, plus price (and size). There endeth the advantages.
But there are READING advantages for tablets, not to mention all the other things tablets do. Color. Speed. No flicking. Ability to read in poor or no light conditions. Vastly expanded sources of content. Pdf's are much better, as are magazines and reading the web.
More advances are coming -- stay tuned to the college text book market with integration between student and professor.
If the eInk readers had stayed expensive, their few advantages would not have been able to withstand the advantages of a tablet.
As it is, eInk readers are just about to drop into the impulse buy price point (below $100). Nothing Amazon is doing with their tablet is going to kill the eInk kindle.
Lee