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Originally Posted by crich70
Not all devices are equal in ability to see what you are trying to read though. I know my cell phone and my Netbook both have LCD screens and turn dark in direct sunlight. An e-ink screen doesn't do that though. Plus the e-ink reader is built just for that purpose i.e. to read things on. People sometimes complain that they can't read pdf files on one, but pdf files were never meant to be a format for reading books. They were developed to email documents from point a to point b either within a company building or internationally within a company. The modern equivalent of the pneumatic tube in effect. Tablets, cell phones, etc. do a number of different jobs. Reading is just one small facet of what they are designed for.
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If you don't read outside (I don't I prefer to focus on where I'm going) then the fact that a phone or tablet is harder (but not impossible) to read on isn't a problem.
Just because my phone is capable of doing more than one thing doesn't mean I have to utilize all those other features all the time. My phone is in airplane mode 99% of the time, because that is how I want it, my phone is for my use, not so other people can call or text me with nonsense all day long.
I don't need an e-ink reader to be able fully focus on my book, I'm not that easily distracted, nor am I the least bit interested in what's happening on FB so my phone makes a terrific ereader, that I happen to utilize as a phone on rare occasion.
Read on whatever you want and enjoy, and leave the rest of us to do the same even if it's on a different device than an e-ink machine.