Although some people see a reason to buy a device just to read a book, I don’t. Some have said that Amazon’s Kindle is the savior of the e-book market. I don’t believe it. Others say that e-book readers will kill the book-publishing industry and bring it into the 21st century. I think that’s rubbish. The fact of the matter is e-book readers will never have commercial relevance.
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Sorry, Don, but you’re wrong. If there would be something you could really call an e-book- (or better: digital media) reader, the market would explode. I’m talking about something similar to a TabletPC but formated to DIN-A5 and less than 800g. Something to read any digital text and to easily write some notes. - E-books have one problem only: missing hardware.
Posted by Gerrit Eicker at April 7th, 2008 at 5:14 amYou don’t place any value on the benefits, so you just “don’t get it”. Which you said, several times. That’s fine, but then you make the mistake of presuming that your value system holds true for everyone else.
Or in the immortal words of CmdrTaco, “No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.”
Posted by Michael Long at April 7th, 2008 at 1:23 pm