[dmaul1114]

Yeah, it's just all a matter of what a person needs.

I'm a light reader, so my K1 purchase was kind of silly, and it's not something I'll use once I have a nice tablet device. I don't need e-ink or 2 week battery life to read 30-60 minutes a day 3 or 4 days a week.

I hardly ever take pictures, so I've not bothered replacing my digital camera that broke and just use my cellphone.

Point being, if someone is an enthusiast in a hobby--they're more likely to need/prefer dedicated devices that are designed to do that one task as well as possible. Where as someone who's more casually into a hobby will likely be fine/prefer something that does other tasks they spend more time on as well.

Though their are numerous exceptions of course, as people have posted about reading 5-10 books a week on their iPads etc.

As I've noted before, I'm really into movies, tv, sports, video games, goofing online etc. and all of those I spend a lot more time on than I do reading--if you discount work related reading which I'd never do on an e-ink device due to slow page refresh and crappy annotation ability.

So I'm dying for a nice iPad like tablet with an 11-12" screen that I can do my work reading on, do my reading of novels before sleeping on, read magazines, newspapers and comics (all of which stink on eink devices IMO) and spend most of the time on it goofing online, watching streaming video, playing games etc.

Others are just avid readers and want a device that does nothing but display e-books on a paper-like screen. To each their own.