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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Don't make me have to go on tour to show off my 505. I would hate to see all those poor Kindles start living in a closet.  |
Function over form gets me every time.
I am a book lover and don't think that an electronic device can provide you with quite the same experience(yet) that a dead-tree book can. Yet, what sold me on the idea is the way that an electronic device can enrich my reading even though it can not reproduce the feel of a book.
The simplest method is by way of a dictionary. "Here is a book that has the ability to define every word that is held within its covers." Wow, what a very tangible benefit to reading a book on an electronic device that I would not otherwise have with the dead-tree version.
Sony, unfortunately, does not seem to grasp that concept, even on their second try. E-ink displays are great, but they are not paper. If you can not "beat" the feel, look, contrast, etc. of paper then you must provide a set of features that would entice people into using an electronic device for reading.
A book with a dictionary built-in, a pen that never runs out of ink and can't be lost, a highlighter that is always handy, and the ability to search your books orders of magnitude faster then if they were dead-tree books. Those features, along with an e-ink display, provide an enrichment to reading that you can't have with a normal paper book.