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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Maybe its a locality thing, but I'm sure I see more gen-Z's reading p-books than I saw a few years ago...
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That is, of course, because they are not "serious readers". After all we have just been told that "serious readers almost always have dedicated devices" (and that is a common claim made elsewhere in these forums). Plus the gen-Zs have done the Google thing and ended up landing on these forums where they have also discovered, not yet having the experience to know to take forum advice with a grain of salt, that if they read on their phones (or tablets) they will get hurty eyes, or even worse cause them permanent damage.
So tablets, phones and dedicated E Ink readers are out for reading by those who are not "serious readers"; what do they have left - pbooks, of course.
{Yes, I was trained in sarcasm by the very best
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But moving on, I have a feeling that all the parochial comments giving favor to E Ink displays may be a discouragement to potential new adopters of ebooks. After all, most of our younger kin have phones (and maybe a tablet as well) which they are very comfortable with, so if told they really need to buy another device for reading, and that with a display which is clearly not as sexy to them as good LCD and AMOLED can do they are just going to turn off.
John