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Originally Posted by elcreative
toddos, there's a big difference between the size of a smartphone screen and a tablet which is what outlander78 was saying... holding a smartphone to your ear is not holding an iPad to your ear... 
Owning a smartphone is not an either/or situation either... but until my smartphone has a flexible eInk screen that will expand to 6 inches and has a 7-15 day battery life then the reading gets done on my eReader (which I have no trouble taking everywhere) and everything else gets done on my smartphone, everything but reading...  |
And I think you completely missed
my point. Outlander said that nobody wants to read on a smartphone, which is false as a blanket statement. I read on my smartphone, and I do most of my reading on it. Even when I could read on my Nook, I tend to choose the smartphone (using a book light on the Nook keeps the fiancee up at night, while the backlight of my smartphone in white-on-black mode does not). I always have my smartphone with me so I always have my book(s) with me and I can open up the reader and read a couple of pages any time I have a spare moment. I rarely take my Nook anywhere because even in its small size it's too big to fit in a pant or jacket pocket comfortably. I guess if I carried a backpack or purse everywhere that would make a difference, but I don't.
I like the concept of eink, and I don't regret my Nook purchase. It's great on vacation or when I have time to just sit and read for an hour or two. But for the rest of the time, I need something that's portable and backlit. A 4" eink device with minimal bezel (so that it's no bigger than 4.3-4.4") and a proper backlight would be perfect for me, but that's not going to exist anytime soon.
And on a side note, I don't understand why nobody's built in a good light on an ereader yet. With the size of the bezels on these things, you could put some surface mount LEDs in the bottom or top bezel (like they do with LCD backlights) and the screen would light up quite well without spilling too much light where you don't want it. Or something like Timex's Indiglo.