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Old 02-26-2018, 05:08 AM   #99
John F
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I think Amazon "supports" eInk because it makes them money to do so. And, in recent (November, 2017) interview, Amazon’s Chris Green, VP of Design spoke about a single use device ...

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“It’s the difference between a hammer and a Swiss Army Knife, isn’t it? If you want to go on a vacation or commute, you want a hammer — you want a real e-reader, so you don’t fall down a rabbit hole of your phone.”

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Seems like a rather strange analogy. A Swiss Army Knife can't even act as a hammer, where as a tablet can act very well as an ereader and arguably the tablet can surpass a dedicated ereader.

FWIW, I prefer a dedicated eink ereader for reading fiction.
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