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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
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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Exactly!! I'm in a whole other niche - I'm an avid reader and read for hours on end - but I have no issues doing it near a wall outlet, or on an LCD screen. My main criteria, (which I've found after owning a dedicated reading device for a year), is format functionality. I don't like doing conversions. I want to be able to choose a file and open it with it's native program without having to jump through the hoops (small though they may be), to convert it. I don't like having to worry about which format(s) I am limited to, I want to be able to read them all. But you said it: It is not, nor will it ever be, a zero sum end game. Everyone's different, everyone has different needs.