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mk  ·  4727 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Finding Your Book Interrupted ... By the Tablet You Read It On
I agree with the glare. I much prefer the e-ink of the Kindle. That's reason enough for me. Also, it's so much lighter.

I did go to Hubski once on my Kindle. It looked pretty funny.

    But Mr. McQuivey of Forrester said that it was more likely that tablets would eventually edge out black-and-white e-readers. “The historical precedent suggests that’s the case,” he said, citing the Palm Pilot, digital point-and-shoot cameras and portable GPS systems for the car as items that have been gradually displaced by multifunction devices. “There’s less and less reason to have these as stand-alone devices.”

I'm not sure I agree with this. We don't all have Swiss Army knives. Sometimes, the unique device serves better than the universal, and that's all there is to it.