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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Good point, the term "ebook reader" isn't a name. It will fail to ever reach general usage, just like the technical terms "CD player", "cassette player", "tape player", "record player", "8-track player", and similar excessively techy terms for household devices failed to catch on.
Oh, wait-- they didn't fail to catch on.
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It's so much fun being sarcastic, isn't it?
Those are not names either, they are just descriptions. And no they are not excessively techy, they are excessively pedestrian, so that no one gets confused by the excessively techy objects they are describing. I've nothing much against them, other than I really would prefer one word for one device, not a complete description for every time I want to refer to it. This is even more obvious in languages like Greek, where all words have inflections, and they tend to be generally longer too. Using more than one word all the time tends to be quite a mouthful.