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Making excuses seems to be a popular secondary hobby of a lot of ebook reader users.
Yes, the battery, controller, and other things take up space. They take up space on a touchscreen phone and PDA too, and in just about any portable media player device and tablet PC. Of course, books have to be super-thin in order to be viable in a marketplace...so we can't make them pudgy.
Then there's the cushioning/protection thing...and how about "you need a place to hold it!"
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