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Old 05-25-2010, 10:25 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga View Post
Especially since the spork of ebooks, aka LCD tablets, ought to be able to satisfy the people who want non-reading stuff added to their reading devices.
To nit pick semantics, I don't want non-reading stuff added to a reading device.

It's more that I'm not really a reader and the Kindle was a frivolous impulse buy.

So I don't want a reader with extra features, I want a tablet in general, and would just do the little reading I do on it.

Well, little is too soft, as with a big screen tablet I could do my work reading on it--and I do a lot of reading there--which is why I don't read all that much in my spare time.



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Originally Posted by Ankh View Post
With the current battery uptime for tablets, the future looks bright for dedicated readers.

Should that change, though... I am afraid that economics of mass production will heavily tip the scale towards the multi-function devices.
Maybe. But there will still be some companies making devices that are primarily readers--i.e. that have e-ink or other reflective screens etc. as there's clearly a niche of avid readers who want them.

And again, there will be companies taking advantage of that by making products that cater to them.

Dedicated readers may become a smaller niche (or just not get much bigger than they already are). But there will be devices out there to cater to that niche, and that's all that really matters.
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