|
Tablets will never serve as a main reader device for the avid reader. I'm interested in a tablet, but I'll keep my Kindle for my leisure reading.
A tablet I'd use to read and mark up academic PDFs, use as my PDA for my calendar and contacts (I hate my old Palm Pilot), use it for surfing the web and checking e-mail on the couch (replace the need to buy a small, light personal laptop--all I have now is a heavy 15" Thinkpad from Work, that's bulky and I don't like risking viruses with random surfing).
So for those purposes, I don't care much about battery life. It would mainly be used at home, in the office, in hotel rooms when traveling like my laptop is now. And my laptop is hardly ever unplugged from power. As long as the tablet gets 6 hours or so of battery life, I'd be fine as I could see every using it more than that in a day, and could just charge it at night.
But yeah, these aren't going to replace reader devices, and probably not be super useful for people who don't need them for some work related function.
|