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Originally Posted by phenomshel
(regarding what a woman might want in an e-book reader)
I can think of lots of things. Color, for one. Pretty cases, covers, skins....
I love that I can customize the boot screen on the EZ Reader, I've got a very "girly" start up screen.
None of those things would be a deal breaker if it wasn't present, but having the option would be great.
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To each their own, sure. But I don't understand why a person who wants color is guaranteed, or even likely, to be a woman? Or why a person who wants to customize their start up screen is likely to be a woman?
Plus, maybe it's just me, but I think the "shrink it and pink it" approach to making traditionally men's stuff like guns and tools appeal to women is just insulting. I'm not some little child with My Little Pony painted on my bedroom walls. If I need a wrench, I need a wrench. It's not any more useful to me because it's pink. Frankly, the pink wrench is likely to be less well made, in my (admittedly limited) experience. It could be made a "woman's wrench" in a much more practical way by giving it a sturdy extendable handle so I could get more leverage on a nut some muscle-bound ape overtightened--and I would probably buy such a wrench even if it were pink, as long as it was a quality tool... but not without looking for more neutral colors.
Same for an e-book reader. I must admit I like the red ones, (and the blue ones) but I bet that men like the colored ones too. They probably shy away from pink for social reasons--hey--
that's what pink would be good for; if your husband tends to walk off with your e-book reader, you could take advantage of the fact that there's social pressure on men not to have pink stuff by using a pink reader!
Maybe that's what pink tools are for too... There's still the quality issue, though.