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Well, only a few months ago ebook readers were barely a blip on my radar. I knew e-ink existed and thought it was a nifty technology with potential but beyond that I really wasn't interested in it. I'm not entirely sure what brought a shift in my thinking, I'm sure that part of it was the sinus problems I've been having the past year and my observation that reading seemed to inflame things. Also there was looking around my house and realizing I had books all over the place and I was developing a Pavlovian aversion to reading. I think there were more factors that I've yet to identify. Then I saw an announcement about the Kindle DX and something clicked and wile I wasn't 100% sold on the Kindle I knew I was either going to get a reader or give up reading.
I think most people, who could benefit from a reader, are where I was prior to a few months back. The devices are expensive, you don't really see them in stores unless you're looking for them. You wonder if the books you want to read will actually be available on them. It's not an impulse buy for most budgets and it's hard to get interested unless something else helps to draw you in. It's only then that you start actively looking at what's available.
I don't see that really changing any time soon.
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