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Bob, I was speaking generally without a specific device in mind.
What I had in mind was that the more expensive devices offer features the less expensive devices do not. For example, I've been told that the Kindle DX allows you to surf the web using the hyperlinks contained in footnotes. My jetBook Lite doesn't even offer using hyperlinks to jump back and forth between the body of the text and the endnote.
The Kindle DX goes for about $450. The jetBook Lite goes for about $115. I considered the state of my wallet, and it didn't take much consideration to conclude that for only $115 I could live without the features the jetBook Lite doesn't offer.
Considering the technological advances enjoyed by electronic gadgets while their prices decline, I recommend to someone who does not yet own an eBook reader that rather than spending extra money for features which will fairly soon become commonplace and cheap, he should for now be content with an inexpensive device that meets his minimum desires, and budget/plan to buy another device two or three years down the road.
That is to say, a newbie should not expect his first eBook reader to be his last, so he needn't spend all of his money on what is currently available/all of his savings on current technology.
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