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Originally Posted by Crowl
I think you are confused, I'm not being defensive, I'm merely bored of the way you seem to want to shoehorn in your idea of what an ideal device should be regardless of the topic and indeed this time you were seemingly so desperate to do you chose to ignore the majority of my post that was about cost and ease of use since those are very clearly not things that a multifunction device has a hope of hell of competing on.
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I'm only saying what I want....and that I think there is a market for it.
Not that it is what everyone needs or wants, or that it will completely replace dedicated readers. I'd probably keep a dedicated reader around just because they are smaller and easier to read in bed etc. and perfectly adequate for reading a novel for pleasure.
But they're completely useless for reading academic books, scholarly journal articles that I must be able to quickly and easily highlight and right notes on. And they're a pain for travel since I also need something with full internet access, full e-mail, pda functions etc., need something that plays MP3s, something that I can watch video on etc. So I'd love a multi function tablet that can do all that, while keeping something like a Kindle for reading novels around the house or in waiting rooms etc.
Others have no need for that stuff as they're older, don't need such a device for work and are just into reading and not much into music, video etc.
Thus there's plenty of room in the market for dedicated readers and multifunction devices that also can access say the Kindle store etc. Gives people options and gives e-books stores access to more customers. Seems like a no-brainer win-win situation to me. I think some are just overly worried about dedicated readers vanishing--but I don't see that happening. There we always at the least be a sizable niche for them. Just like there's a sizeable niche of academics/professionals who would buy a good tablet device.