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Pretty silly article if you ask me. I agree with schmolch that he just seems to dislike books altogether. That closing statement was quite amusing. As a technology writer, he of all people should know that you can't just write off the best current tech as dumb or useless based solely on the promise of future devices. By that logic you should call all PCs, laptops and cellphones dumb because 1-2 years from now there will be something better.
Tablets will have an impact, and they will be useful, but until they come up with a bistable color display that works well, they won't really make too huge an impact on the ebook reader market. As someone who has used my laptop on flights for reading/working, the one thing we are all painfully aware of is that we have made little progress in battery technology in the past few years. Tablets with LCD/OLED displays will still eat through their batteries in the span of reading a novel (or even less). To me, that is a deal breaker.
I love my new PRS-505 and I don't really find the resolution or quality of display, device form factor bad at all. I wouldn't trade it in for a reading device with a significantly shorter battery life and increased eye strain.
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