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I couldn't disagree more with LDBoblo. I really love being able to carry around thousands of books in my small backpack. I love that I can have a gigantic library and still live in an apartment. I also love the access to thousands of free public domain books and the approximately $50 worth of free magazines and newspapers I get every month using calibre's fetch news feature. $10 best-sellers that are only out in hard-back aren't bad either.
As for the assertion that a back-lit LCD screen is an improvement over e-ink, I don't buy it for a second. There's a reason people print large documents out to read them: reading on an LCD screen hurts your eyes. Besides, I'm not going to curl up on the couch, relax at the beach, prop up under a tree or sit in the bathtub with a laptop.
Everyone who looks at my Reader (including myself) thinks that the e-ink looks exactly like a printed page. I still can't get over how good it looks. I easily read twice as much since I got my device. I take it everywhere I go and use it every single day. The only way I will ever buy another p-book is if I'm just dying to read something that I can't get in ebook format.
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