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Originally Posted by toddos
If your definition of "ereader" is "an eink device design exclusively for displaying ebooks", then sure, none of the tablet/reader devices (Nook Color/Tablet, Kindle Fire, Kobo Vox) are "ereaders". However if you look at who's selling them (major ebook sellers Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Kobo) and how the devices are designed (custom shells designed to expose books and magazines as top-level content), they most certainly are ereaders. That they can do more is just a bonus.
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No, I didn't mention eInk. There are certainly non-eInk eReaders. The Jetbook would be one example.
My definition of an eReader is a device whose primary function is reading. The iPhone and iPad are not eReaders, by my definition, because reading isn't the main purpose that they're designed for.
Perhaps devices like the Nook Color are; I couldn't say, never having seen one.