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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
The benefits of an eink ereader come with cons as well. There is for example: Slow fragile display, only black and white, horrible implementation of browsing or pdf support.
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If I want to browse the internet, I use my laptop or tablet. If I want to read pdf files, the order is laptop, tablet, ereader. If I want to watch a video, the order is tablet, laptop. For reading fiction, manuals or reference texts, the ereader is at the head of the list -- lighter, easier to read in bright light, etc. Black and white? Very few of the books I read any colour other than the cover image.
Slow, fragile display? Slow? Changes pages faster than I can read them. Fragile? I've lost count of how many tablets and phones I've seen with cracked or shattered displays. Not to mention laptops -- things like the user picking up the laptop and starting to walk away having forgotten to unplug the power supply. Unless you have a MagSafe connector, a not so great oops! moment. The joys of being in IT -- I dropped my new iPhone 5S in the urinal and I need you to fix it (answer to that one was talk to the purchasing agent, IT does not do phone repair). The cracked displays I've seen on ereaders have been mostly caused by user error. The user dropping his ereader on the seat of his car, forgetting it was there and sitting on it-- final score butt, 1 Voyage 0, carting the ereader in a purse or backpack without a case, having it stuffed into the pocket of a pair of cargo shorts and bumping into a banister. Treated properly, the chances are good the display will outlast the battery.
Sheesh... I'm having a Wolf moment and may break into a riff on never read with a naked ereader.
