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Originally Posted by sealbeater
Personally I still don't see why someone would read on their phone. I have a book reader that gets excellent battery life...why would I run down my phone's battery?
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Reading-on-the-phone adds no additional complications to what you already are doing just by having a phone. Phones need to be charged. Time between charges varies according to usage. If you use it more you need to charge it more. There are many mitigations available if you are concerned your phone will be without power in some emergency. Turning the question around, why would you not read on your phone if you are already carrying it everywhere with you? Why carry a second device, just in case you have a few minutes to read?
Per the topic of this thread, it seems people want larger screens because they need to have larger text to be able to read comfortably, and the standard 6” screen isn’t enough space for the size they would like to use. I get that.
I am fortunate in that glasses allow me to read very small text comfortably. If that ever ceased to be the case, and I had the financial means and medical fitness to undergo corrective procedure such as laser sculpting or lens replacement, I would definitely investigate that, because life is too short to suffer with correctable vision limitations.
If confronted with non-correctable vision issues, I would still opt for a tablet because they have a broader range of mitigations than ereaders (high contrast mode, color adjustments, fonts, text to speech etc.). I cannot see ever being interested in a large black and white reflective screen which does not have such flexibility.
In the meantime a 6-7” eReader is as large as I want it to be.