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Originally Posted by Harry001
In my opinion, the ebook readers - whatever brand it is - is just beginning.
A lot of modern western countries, like germany and most of western Europe, are just starting with ebooks and i know from my own experience, that reading ebooks from a monitor or a small backlit lcd-screen is no pleasure at all.
I move a lot around the world, so my personal library is in storage. to keep on reading, i have my library on a hdd and keep reading with my palmone lifedrive. Devices like that are only a bad compromise to real books and i am really looking forward to christmas eve - and my 505, which is under the tree right now.
I grew up with computers for the last 25 years - so half of my life - but i can't get comfortable reading books or magazines from a computer monitor.
but thats just my 2 cent
take care
harry
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I think they're the best thing we have going
right now, but I don't think the stand-alone reader is going to be with us for all that long. I don't think the speculation was about whether they are doomed this week. It's more a long term thing. When better screen technology comes along and you can have all you like about e-ink in a device that does a bunch of other stuff, then it makes sense that you will be seeing people using a multi-function device rather than what we have today. Still, I think we're, at the very least, a few years out from that so I don't despair about getting my money's worth out of my e-ink reader before there are any converged devices that appeal to me. No reason for Sony et al to start closing down manufacturing any time soon. Pretty much every gadget I own is "doomed" in this sense. It's just the way of technology.