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Originally Posted by erwin
I know to be in a minority in this forum, but frankly I still find using the e-ink dedicated readers around today as a form of victory of show-offness and snobism on the substance and the praticity that the ebook revolution should incarnate. I don't want to seem unecessarily provocative, but really don't see any advantage of a Sony Reader or Kindle over, eg, the Toshiba G900 (with a screen with a resolution of 800x480 points) I'm using now as my phone.
Beside this, at everyone, intended as at every specific person, its tastes obviously.
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Personally, reading on a backlit screen for long periods strains my eyes. I find e-ink more comfortable. I do read on my phone (HTC 6800) sometimes for short periods but I wouldn't want to do it for very long. I'd have a headache and a dead battery. I don't think people even notice my Kindle when I use it in public so I'm hardly showing off with it. It's not like I'm waving it around. People would just see the non-descript brown case unless they looked really closely. Besides, most folks seem to think the Kindle is ugly so I'm not sure who I'd be impressing and aside from that most of my reading is done at home, anyway. My husband has his own and the cats, while occasionally liking to nibble the corner of the case, remain unimpressed.