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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
How about a low-priced 6" device with buttons on both sides? But Kindle and Kobo certainly don't want to make one. And before someone says Nook, the Nook is awful in other ways.
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First, define low-cost.
Unless they get fancy, buttons break water tightness and add cost.
So, how much extra are you willing to pay?
Second, how many people want buttons badly enough to pay a premium? Amazon put the buttons on the Voyage and Oasis (premium, low volume sellers) rather than the Basic Kindle and Paperwhite(high volume sellers) for a reason.
It's easy to list features you like--I've found I prefer reading landscape dual column so a 16x9 Papewhite that *can* do 2-column would be heaven for me--but those features have to sell enough *extra* to justify the added design and coding labor, the added SKU, and the added assembly line and component supply chain. Not trivial even for a cheap feature.
And in my case I known I'm enough of an outlier it'll be snowing in the Amazon before we see a 16x9 eink screen anywhere.
It's all about ROI; how much added money will the added expense brings.
So instead of pining for a 16x10 ink screen, I merely hope for a very light cheap tablet instead,