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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I confess I don't really understand the desire to read web articles (which usually include photos, hyperlinks etc) on an eink reader. IMO it's a pain. I just read them on a tablet or a laptop. True, I don't read hundreds of articles per month, but I do read quite a lot. I also read Wikipedia articles on my laptop for the same reason. My eink readers are for regular novels.
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I am the sort of person you do not understand. I bought an ereader because there were just too many articles, and I was in a situation where I could not concentrate reading on the computer. I fell in love with eink display as a medium; the bright light of a monitor (or phone) seems to bring out my impatience.
Now, even if I could read a short one online (like obits), I still send them to the ereader. Good thing too, because there are often interesting hyperlinks, citations, etc for followup.
But the real value comes on those longform essays, such as in the NYRB or NYTimes Magazine, where a comfy sofa makes it easier for me to concentrate.