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Originally Posted by cliffsloane555
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.
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I get the comfy sofa part.
I read web content on my tablet or a laptop (the latter is on a stand on a small table) often on my sofa also. But I'm not a particular fan of long essays; they're too subjective for my taste, although I do read them occasionally. I prefer my web content to be more impartial and fact-oriented. For longform, I strongly prefer regular books, especially fiction, and that is where eink really shines.
To each their own, I guess.