Thread: Are e-ink readers useful, or just a fun gadget?
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Old 09-20-2006, 01:09 PM   #1
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Are e-ink readers useful, or just a fun gadget?
There is an interesting article by Jeff Scott, called Technology Nobody Uses: Are you buying it just to be cutting edge?, that raises the question of why people want e-book readers. If it's just a gadget thing, then there's never going to be widespread adoption.

I have to confess that I didn't read the whole article yet, so hopefully I don't misrepresent the author's meaning, but I'd like to know what our readers here think.

Are e-ink or other e-book readers always going to be a niche item for fringe tech and gadget fanatics? You know... slightly crazy people like us! Or do you think that e-book readers will be a useful product that can become mainstream? (We'll assume we have decent quality products and book sources, of course.)
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