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Old 04-23-2010, 02:02 AM   #30
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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh View Post
Mike_73,
Thanks for the comments, and yeah, I am a geek, and happy to embrace my geek-ness. I want to buy an e.Reader. Apart from anything else at all, I love the feel of holding a book in my hand and physically reading from it, something that a laptop or tablet PC will never be able to replicate. (Sorry, Steve Jobs.) The e.readers I've seen approximate that in dimension and weight (well, a first-release larger-format paperback, maybe), which for me adds to their appeal.
Most people initially say they want something that's just like a book. That's what I thought too, especially as I've been reading and collecting them for over 50 years. But the reality of e-readers doesn't really match the sales blurb all that accurately. In my experience, the resemblance is fairly superficial. Fortunately it doesn't matter, and both e-ink readers and tablet can hit the spot for different people.

If you can be bothered reading it, there's a longer explanation here:

Do you know what you REALLY need in an e-reader
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