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Old 09-11-2007, 03:49 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by radleyp View Post
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.
I think that's a good selling point for ordinary people because they can visualize it: a high stack of books vs. a thin reader. Of course that's nothing new to techies or long time PDA users like myself. But we are the minority of the Reader's targeted consumers.

Additionally, e-ink is much better for reading. After using the Reader for a couple weeks, I don't want to go back to my old CLIE for any serious reading. It has bigger screen and is much easier to the eyes for long time reading.
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