(would have loved to have a long chat about this over coffee, but I'm not up to writing long, thought out missives this month, so please excuse my snipping large swaths of your text ---8<--- haha)
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Originally Posted by Timboli
I am not trying to substitute my preference in place of yours or others, or even saying mine is better. If you are happy with current status quo, then lucky you ... we should be so lucky. Some of us have a different preference, that we also, are entitled to. In a very real way, to say the current status quo SHOULD be acceptable for all, is in itself taking a condescending line.
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Not trying to dispute what you like. Just explaining why your hypothetical device doesn't work at all for me and the way I think about reading... This is the what-do-you-want thread after all
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You and I and most others here who own an ereader, are in relative terms overall, early adopters. There are factors that made us so, that don't apply to many others out there. That should never be forgotten. 
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I wonder about this. E-ink readers have been mass market for about ten years now, and before that various LCD readers were available, and PDAs before them (disclosure: in the past I have worked for both Gemstar and BlackBerry). iBooks and Google Play Books have been commonplace for about five years. Microsoft's LIT format books were first released around 2000 IIRC.
Personally, I have read almost exclusively on eink for the last ten years, and almost exclusively on phones, PDAs and other electronic readers for the ten years before that. And that doesn't even include the reading I did earlier in plain old text from Gutenberg back when they still believed that ASCII was the best preservation medium. But I don't feel like an early adopter. I tend to be conservative because I want my gadgets to work and be reliable and use open, interchangeable, standard formats. So I think of ebooks as being very established, well up there with papyrus scrolls.
Ebook readers are the new norm. Pbook readers are the late-adopting holdouts :P
(Actually, now that I think back to my old Franklin eBookman, Sony Clie and Casio Cassiopeia, I kind of miss having a scroll wheel to use as the page turn mechanism)