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Originally Posted by Azayzel
I guess the way I'd define the amount of usage and lifetime for any digital device of mine is in terms of if it still does what it's supposed to do and I'm satisfied with it. Regarding digital reading devices, I'm still not content with any of the offerings out there yet pertaining to large-format media; so until one comes along and meets my demands I guess I'll keep upgrading until one does (of course I won't spend an arm and a leg for one either!).
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That's very much my attitude too. There was a time, for example, when I'd pretty much automatically buy each new model of iPaq Pocket PC that HP released, because each was a significant improvement. Now that device has matured, I'm happy with the one I have and I no longer do that.
Book readers are still very much at the "developing product" stage of their life, and each new generation of device does generally have something new and worthwhile to offer. I'll probably be regularly upgrading my eBook readers for the next 5-10 years. My present "requrement" is that a book reader has good MobiPocket support, but even that may change at some point if some "killer device" is released which doesn't have Mobi support.