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Originally Posted by tompe
I agree that ebook readers can give more functionality but your example is not an added functionality for me since I never leave home without bringing a book with me.
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Yeah, that used to be me, too, before I got my iPhone. I hate carrying things, even books. So I tended to take books that fit in my pocket. I've got a couple of "manbags" but I think carrying them is kind of like wearing seat belts - the older generation never got the habit. I do have Infinite Jest at my office, in its own personal manbag, to take to lunch & read. But mainly, if it fits in my pockets, I take it, otherwise, not.
One of my strategies in the past was to stash books around wherever I might find myself - office, car, book(s) in every room in the house in partial states of unread, briefcase when I had to carry one. Um...I still do all that...
So for the most part, carrying things ain't my bag, meaning that the iPhone was a real boon - now I have books in my pocket all the time. But with aging eyes, I'd like to have a bit larger font, & I think I've found a pretty portable eReader in the Sony 300 I just bought. It will fit most of my jacket pockets, & in the summer I tend to wear cargo shorts so it will fit a pocket then, too.
But I think that for a lot of people, it's just easier to carry an eBook reader, so I regard that as added functionality, even though I expect most of us on this board, pre-ebook, carried pbooks around.