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Originally Posted by Superlucky
I hope their predictions don't come true (not the part about Kindle death - that I can deal with). I like a bare-bones device and I hate thinking that I will eventually have to sacrifice screen quality and portability for features that I don't want like browsers, video and mp3 players. Without electronic ink and a small size it's just a stupid laptop.
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What comes true is a matter of what people buy.
My preferred reading device is a PDA. It's small enough that I can carry it and use it pretty much anywhere. Battery life is adequate to go a day without charging, and it tops off over ight. It supports color, and uses SD cards for storage so I can carry my entire ebook library (currently about 3,500 books). Software is available to let me read just about any document format. And it does a lot of other things besides display ebooks, which is the critical factor for me.
The downsides are a screen that's a bit smaller than I'd really like, and a backlit LCD screen, but the latter is a downside only in terms of battery life. I'm quite comfortable reading on it. If I could get something that did everything my PDA did in a form factor similar to a Sony Reader, I'd jump. As it is, I'm content.
But that simply reflects my usage and preferences. We've seen the market grow big enough to support the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader, with other vendors tossing their hats in the ring. I think there will be enough users who just want a no frills device to read books that they will continue to exist.
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Dennis