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Nearly all of my life I carried books around with me to read.
Military utilities will hold three paperbacks in the cargo pocket of each leg. Briefcases have pockets for books behind your work materials. Belt pouches are made in sizes that will hold a couple of books.
In the nineties, I got digital copies to fill in the volumes of my pulp collection which I had never been able to read in print. However, I couldn't carry them around with me and more importantly I could not read them out of doors.
I shelled out for an early tablet back in the windows XP days (a Gigabyte M704) To get a modicum of portability, but though the machine was flexible I still couldn't read outdoors. My wife didn't want a matching tablet. She wanted the Sony PRS 505 we saw while shopping for the tablet.
Once she used it outdoors where the wind kept me from reading my book, I realized that I really needed an ereader.
So for me, outdoor use is a key factor, and I hope the Kobo Aura H2O incites the competition to put out weatherized units as well.
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