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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
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.
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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
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.
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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.