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Old 06-22-2019, 02:40 PM   #58
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by Pajamaman View Post
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.
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,
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