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Originally Posted by BookCat
...I would love to purchase another reader if the makers, preferably Amazon or Kobo, made either a 5" reader with a frontlight, or a 6" reader with reliable (no bleed) warm light AND TTS (through corded headphones) and also included an SD slot. Also, the ability to add and customise custom fonts. Last, but not least it should be waterproof (this doesn't matter much to me, but would to others.)
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...and I want a pet dinosaur and a laser gun!
TTS, headphone jack and SD card are gone and are unlikely to come back.
An e-ink reader doesn't have to be a Swiss Army gadget or a phone, but with a worse screen.
The SD card would be nice, but that doesn't seem to play well with the also desired waterproofing. Internal storage has been bumped up to an average of 8GB with 32GB available. For ebooks, that seems to be plenty of space. Yeah, PDFs and comics are pretty big, but those seem better suited to a tablet anyway.
Audiobooks are also a mostly pointless addition to an e-ink reader. They are handled better on phones/tablets/laptops. If Amazon didn't own Audible and have a vested interest in cramming audiobooks down your throat, the Kindle's audiobook capability wouldn't make sense.
I do suspect the next batch of 6" readers will have both color-changing frontlight and waterproofing. Those both seem popular and have appeared on multiple devices, but for the most popular sized e-readers, it's an either/or choice right now.