Thread: Why are dedicated ebooks readers still popular?
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Old 03-31-2021, 02:04 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by jbcohen View Post
When smart phones can do that as well?

Besides all the other reasons mentioned already, there's the size issue. I have read on my OLED phone and found it tolerable, but even it's 6.6 inch screen involves WAY too much physical activity "turning pages" compared to the 7 inch screen of my Libra.

Fundamentally, though your question could just as well be asked of paper books: "why are dedicated pbooks still popular, when a smartphone can do that as well?" A paper book also "is something additional to carry and something to worry about getting lost". But you don't ask that, because the existence of paper books, single-purpose devices as they are, is widely accepted because people consider them to deliver a superior reading experience. Ditto e-readers.
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