View Single Post
Old 09-28-2009, 02:50 PM   #4
Crowl
Wizard
Crowl ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Crowl ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Crowl ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Crowl ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Crowl ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Crowl ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Crowl ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Crowl ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Crowl ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Crowl ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Crowl ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Crowl's Avatar
 
Posts: 1,340
Karma: 1160346
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Southport, GB
Device: Kindle Voyage, PW Signature edition
Quote:
Originally Posted by Penforhire View Post
I'd say e-readers are a stop-gap technology. If netbook screens ever get e-ink-like reading quality it will at least diminish the eReader market, especially in tablet-PC form IMO. If I travel and have to drag a netbook with me anyway then why add an eReader if the netbook had as good a screen with only slightly more mass? Today I still take the eReader with me for its better display and convenient form.
It's all about perspective though, you mention having to drag a netbook with you when you travel, well when I travel with work I will always need to take a proper laptop with me and as such the form factor of my 505 is the perfect complement to it and it is not competing for bagspace against a bigger and heavier netbook, it is competing against the paperback book I would otherwise be carrying.
Crowl is offline   Reply With Quote