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Originally Posted by Steinhoff
You know, for me some of greatest attributes of e-readers are:
- Convenient portable library at size of your palm
- Built in Dictionary at the tip of your finger, so as not to break the flow of reading immersion. (Which in my case is really important, because I am obsessive with vocabulary, I want to savor every nuance and subtleties unfamiliar words that are conveyed in the context)
- The Internets huge wealth of content gratis.
- Annotations, bookmarks and highlights,etc..
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This is a really good summary. For me most of these are important, the dictionary is an especially welcome thing that I didn't expect to need or like or probably even knew Kindle had when I ordered the first one, but quickly became a very common usage from Kindle 2 forwards. It makes every reading session an opportunity to learn new words too.
But personally I would put e-ink on top of that list of yours. I couldn't read books on LCDs and I wouldn't be into e-readers without e-ink. I have owned various smartphones and tablets and tried, but I just can't. The bright light shining into your eyes simply takes too much away from the experience. Reading some guide books or magazines or websites is one thing, but "proper" books, fiction etc., really getting lost into the world of the book, for that I find e-ink mandatory.
E-ink, for me, is book-like-enough to get lost into. And that's a great thing, because having a screen like that allows me to enjoy all the other benefits you list above that e-ink readers have. I would also add instant book deliveries to the list - I simply read more books thanks to e-ink, than I ever have before. No question about it. And that's a good thing.