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AdrianWerner · 04-12-2010, 10:36 AM

Can it replace them? I'm not sure. Aside from more comfortable form factor reading on iPad is the same as on any laptop. And we shelled out hundreds of dollars on e-ink devices precisely to avoid reading on laptops.

iPad (or more broadly speaking any tablet/slate PC, when it comes to reading they're the same thing anyway) is definitly better for reading things that aren't pure novels and I think the current tablets ressurgence will do wonders to digitalization of written media (novels, comics, text books, magazines..everything). However I don't think it's game over for e-ink. It just needs to become cheaper. A $99 e-ink device will be popular and it's limited functionality won't harm it, there's nothing wrong with having a device that just does one thing, but does it exceptionally well.

04-12-2010, 10:36 AM	#253
AdrianWerner Member Posts: 15 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: Thinkpad X60t	Can it replace them? I'm not sure. Aside from more comfortable form factor reading on iPad is the same as on any laptop. And we shelled out hundreds of dollars on e-ink devices precisely to avoid reading on laptops. iPad (or more broadly speaking any tablet/slate PC, when it comes to reading they're the same thing anyway) is definitly better for reading things that aren't pure novels and I think the current tablets ressurgence will do wonders to digitalization of written media (novels, comics, text books, magazines..everything). However I don't think it's game over for e-ink. It just needs to become cheaper. A $99 e-ink device will be popular and it's limited functionality won't harm it, there's nothing wrong with having a device that just does one thing, but does it exceptionally well. Last edited by AdrianWerner; 04-12-2010 at 10:39 AM.