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Originally Posted by AprilHare
We all know that electronic technology often gets outmoded quickly.
However, liseuses are a special category of device. We're storing books on them, and one would presume we're hoping to be able to keep on reading them on our liseuses for years to come.
The question is: how long should a liseuse last for?
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i don't know what to vote. i would hope that they could last a long time even though for most of their lives they would be "obsolete" ; i believe my parents' small first television is still working, and it's as old as i am (literally). and my father has, next to his more recent (faster, better...) computer, a couple of real antiquities which he keeps around presumably out of nostalgia, and they still work fine too (one of them has a copy of photoshop 1 installed on it. he likes to say how it boots up in about a millisecond).
but things seem to be manufactured to break these days, and liseuses are fragile anyway, although once we see flexible screens adopted they should be a lot sturdier.
thinking about my dad's old computers (and my 10 or so year old eb1150, which also still works a treat and keeps about a 20-hour charge on the battery...), i'd kind of like to say "20 years or so" but i suspect that's wishful thinking...