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If you've more than 50 books, then book management is important. Old ereaders with no SD card can store maybe 3,000 books and modern ereaders 6,000 to 30,000.
Unless you are reading very casually, only once and only latest mass market best sellers, a reader only reader is poor.
Also there has been more than 10 years to develop decent GUI and book management. The actual production cost and distribution cost of a barely adequate reader compared with a decent one with annotation, management, dictionaries etc is ZERO.
Also the big advantage of ebooks over paper is management and annotation. The problem is that much software development goes into DRM features and what the Marketing department wants, not what readers want. Justifying the poor state of EVERYONE'S ereader systems on the basis that people only want basic reading is madness.
Yes, and paper books should only have a paper cover, all be in a single font, just inline chapter headings, no blurb, contents, list of other titles in series, publishing info, header, footer or page numbers, because readers just want to read.
Of course the purpose of the existence of a book is to be read!
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