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Originally Posted by salamon
Ironically, I still don't find those tablets useful. Everything you can do on them can be performed much more smoothly on a laptop or desktop. E-ink serves a unique purpose in that it's not really a recreational device but rather one suited for reading, and in my case reading textbooks and academic papers for long hours, without distractions, battery drains, or a weight that strains my lithe figure.
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I think we all use our ebooks mainly for that because it is what best allow us to do: reading a single page of a single document at once. Single threading. Things get complicated when we want to switch back and forth from taking notes to bookmarks in several books at the same time, something very common when studying in college. Simply the workflow is not faster or convenient enough to say goodbye to paper altogether.. yet.
I meant that we are far from replacing physical paper. Maybe not because of the current eInk technology, but because of the limited processing resources found in the systems built around the display AND a software not meant to imitate a real workflow.
It took decades for a personal computer to be powerful, simple and productive enough to be widely adopted. The same happened with generic portable devices and I think here we have a long way to go.
So can you just read a book? Yes. But so I did with the first Kindle ten years ago.