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Old 09-24-2021, 07:05 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Sarmat89 View Post
The problem lies with the low affordability of e-readers. The low-end devices still use lo-res fragile glass Carta screens, making scrolling and marking text unpractical.
Low resolution (Kindlle Basic 167 dpi) is bad. The eink doesn't suit scrolling. Paging (invented instead of the scroll) is far better than scrolling. There is nothing wrong with glass substrates on a well designed ereader and nothing wrong with Carta. Markup (annotation) is fine if the font is big enough. I use a bigger font for proof reading than pleasure reading on my 300 dpi ereader. When was the last time you bought a paper book as a scroll?

It’s true a decent ereader is a similar price to cheap tablet, but a laptop or popular Apple or Samsung tablet can be x5 the price. No doubt Amazon could give them away if you signed up to a 2 or 3 year subscription, but that ought to be opposed. It would destroy innovation and competition.
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