Speaking for myself, all I want from an e-book reader is, well, a device to read e-books. I care primarily about readability, battery life, ease of getting material on the rascal (preferably SD cards, as I have them already), and that it not cost me any limbs or internal organs.
I just don't care one way or the other about whether it will play MP3's, do Wi-Fi, provide PDA Functions, work as a cell phone, take pictures/video, crunch spreadsheets, decrypt military code, calculate the value of Pi to 300 decimal places, or keep my sodas icy cold.
Please understand if someone chose to incorporate any or all of those features it wouldn't keep me from buying one, but if they wanted to jack the price up for the privilege of having features I see as uninteresting extras, used only occasionally, well ....
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