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Originally Posted by patrickt
I wonder what innovation people want. Do that want the exciting buttons for turning pages? Would that be innovation. I want to read books. I can't imagine a big innovation that I want to pay for. I don't need color. I don't want a 8x10 inch screen and certainly wouldn't want to pay for one. I don't want sound since I have a cell phone that I can use for audiobooks. But, a bigger screen, page-turn buttons, and sound aren't innovations. They're things Kindles had and abandoned. Oh, the amazing innovation of a mechanical keyboard, perhaps.
I'm admittedly not a technically savvy as some so let me know what innovations we're waiting for.
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But why assume that this generation is the pinnacle of ereaders, the perfect intersection of features and price? With every new generation of Kindles many people have said "Now, this is it, now it is perfect, everything I could ever want in an ereader", while others have said "Now they've gone too far, added things I don't want, taken away features I loved".
For me, adding the frontlight was the giant step forward, the feature that made me prefer reading on an e-ink ereader to reading on my phone.
My current favorite ereader is the Kobo Aura H2O but there are still features I'd like to have -- color (and more storage for the color images and covers), and wireless charging and data transfer to eliminate the need for the port cover.
Or possibly, if e-ink readers are to become obsolete, there could be tablets that are lightweight, have improved battery life and some sort of new screen with the best characteristics of both e-ink and LCD.
I'm only seventy-one; I expect to have many more new toys.
