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I mostly read on my phone even though I have a couple of Paperwhites. The reason is size. It's always in my shirt pocket and I never know when I'll have a few minutes to read and the Kindle is too big to carry with me unless I'm pretty sure I'll be reading.
However, I think e-ink is probably the future of reading. The problem is that for people like me there just aren't good, affordable choices in a pocket size ereader. Hopefully that will change.
My hope is that companies like Amazon and Kobo and B&N will give up on ereaders and other companies will start making them and compete with the devices, not with the books they want to sell. That's when we'll be able to get choices that match our varied needs.
I hear a lot of complaints that ereaders are diminishing because there aren't the big advances that we're used to in tech but there's a difference: ereaders have already been pretty much perfected. They work just the way we want them to work. Kind of like books.
Phones, computers, tablets are new in the world and they're advancing rapidly and we expect that for all tech. But books aren't new. There've been books since long before Gutenberg. There have been a few major advances in books but not many. One was the printing press and the most recent is the ereader. It's not something new. It's not technology bringing us something we haven't had before. It's just a new way of doing the same old thing we've been doing for millenia. Expecting the same things we expect from phones and computers makes no sense.
Barry
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