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Old 01-06-2010, 01:48 PM   #6
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Not everybody has the same reading habits or reads the same type of books. Most people here on Mobileread, or the most vocal, seem to like curling up to their favorite fiction genre and enjoy reading long hours.

But that is not for everyone there are many folks that want to read science manuals, text books, non-fiction and would love to have a device that can annotate/highlight have lookup features. Have color and deliver rich media. These tablet devices seem to also have better CPU and can handle more fomats than the traditional eInk Device.

While these devices do eat up batteries rather quickly they offer functionality that current eInk devices cannot deliver.

For some those features are more important than battery life.

Personally I think this is great that as consumers we have more choices and all these different devices fill different needs. In the end we all win since they all will help to move pbooks to ebooks.

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Agree 100%. It's my biggest pet peeve with this site, is most people are just novel readers (and avid readers in general) and read for hours on end.

Which is fine--I do that myself sometimes--but not often.

The problem is you get posts like this as people seem to have trouble realizing that not everyone is like them. Ebooks aren't only for the bookworms who read for hours on end nearly every day.

There are others out there that need different types of devices for different types of reading, who need good mark up and highlight option, color screens, large screens, etc. MUCH more than they need long battery life or screens easy on the eyes in 8 hour reading sessions which they never do.

And you're right, it's great that there's room for tons of different types of devices out there so everyone can find the device(s) that fit their needs. I'll keep a small e-ink device like my Kindle around for novel reading, as I don't need anything more complex than that for reading novels. But I need something much more powerful for reading and marking up academic articles, books, text books, student papers, reading magazines and newspapers etc.


I will say, by the same token, the people that are anti e-ink and keep starting threads about the death of e-ink etc. grate on my nerves as well.

There's plenty of room for e-ink dedicated readers, lcd tablets, netbooks, smart phones, pdas etc. out there. The more devices that have access to e-books the better for all e-book lovers as more book sales means more selection, more competition, better prices, more pressure to scrap DRM etc.

I don't see why so many think it's some kind of zero sum end game where either dedicated readers or multifunction tablets or anything else has to win. There's plenty of room for all kinds of devices that serve their own specific niches.

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