Thread: Cory Doctorow: "Hardware ebook readers are a dead end"
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Old 12-19-2022, 10:45 PM   #156
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Originally Posted by Fiat_Lux View Post
The MobileRead community tends to be hardcore readers. This is the group that would prefer a dedicated e-Ink reader, rather than using their tablet or phone. The average person doesn't see the virtue of a dedicated e-Ink reader, just for reading content.

I'd say it is e-Inks 1, Doctorow 1.
I'm not actually going on this, based upon MR's contingent alone. I have thousands of clients (yeah, it surprises me too) and of those (about 5K) a shockingly high number have, yup, you got it, eInks. My clients are shockingly low-tech; most of them don't know how to download from a browser, or side-load. Hell, they can't find their Downloads folder. Nonetheless, bless their little non-tecchie hearts--they have eInks.

I'll stick with eInks 1, Doctorow 0.

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