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Originally Posted by radleyp
Understood, but this has been possible for years with most PDA's, and I can tell you that, reading in broad daylight apart, I think eink is only marginally better than other ereading systems. To me (and my family and friends, all of us readers) the Sony ads are brainless: no one NEEDS to carry so many books around, so this is not a selling point, yet it keeps being repeated here as if it were. Sony is once more demonstrating the developer's habit of providing solutions to problems that don't exist.
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I, for one disagree on both your points.
For me, e-ink is significantly better than reading on an LCD. I've tried reading on laptops, tablet pc's, pda's and computers. None provide me with the experience I have on an e-ink screen. From battery life to eyestrain, it doesn't get any better than e-ink in my book.
Larger memory is a matter of convenience. You don't *need* to have 60 books on your reader, but do you *need* to have 150 CD's on your iPod? Why not connect it to your computer and swap what you want to listen to for the next few days? Some people (myself included), like to carry around their entire librariy so that can read whatever, whenever. To constantly copy books back and forth is a hassle. And one I'm glad I don't need to deal with.