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My guess is that not only will people continue to read on ereaders but that ereaders will continue to get better. Although they really do suffer from the problem of being nearly perfect for reading already.
The things that can happen to improve ereaders have little to do with ereading and aren't likely to happen as long as ereaders are made by booksellers to enable them to sell ebooks. Ereaders will get a LOT better when we can pick any reader we want and use it to buy and read books from any ebook store: when hardware companies compete to outdo each other in features, giving us variety.
Unfortunately none of that can happen at present because when the product is ebooks and not ereaders, and ereaders are just a sales tool, ereaders that are good enough are good enough for their makers.
It's not that bad a situation, really. They are excellent in terms of reading experience. I recently bought a Nook Glowlight 3 and with it's latest updates it starts losing books after I put a few on it. At present it says I have about 100 books but I've put over 130 books on it. The rest just don't seem to be there although they show up from my PC. But so what! It's a reading device. I can always delete all the books and put my current book on it and it's an amazingly good reading device and that's what it's really all about. I'm not sorry I got it. I am sorry they screwed it up.
Barry
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