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Call me unimaginative but I think this would be feature creep. First, e-book readers are very very far from solving the problem of being as much fun to read as
by DrJokepu 17y ago
Call me unimaginative but I think this would be feature creep. First, e-book readers are very very far from solving the problem of being as much fun to read as dead tree books so I would concentrate on that first.
Second, books don't have videos in them. They have mostly words and a couple of illustrations. I don't see this changing in the short term. I think videos in books would be way too distracting. Books are very different from newspapers.
I can read e-mail on my computer and on my phone. I can read the news on my computer or on my phone. A device that is sold as an e-book reader but isn't as fun to read as dead tree books but it can do the same things as my phone and my notebook has no appeal for me.
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- dagw 17y agoI guess it depends a lot on what you want an ebook reader for. I want one that can handle all my dead tree reading. For me a good 50% of my day to day reading is newspapers, magazines and journal articles. If a device can't handle that and only does novels them I'm flat out not interested. That being said I agree with you that I'm never going to buy a device that isn't first and foremost really good at reading books, no matter what other features it may have. Once they have that cracked then if they can also add video (without making at worse ebook reader) then I'll be even more happy.