News Story Are eBook Readers Already Obsolete?

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Sun, 11/29/2009 - 14:01

Mike Elgan, the veteran technology journalist, mused last week in a Computerworld article that eBook readers would make lousy gifts.

I don't necessarily agree with all of Elgan's points, but it got me thinking about how useful a one-trick device is for users.

If you think about it, we began to solve the problem of carrying multiple devices with the iPhone. Suddenly we didn't need a camera, a phone and a notebook computer with internet access because we had...


 

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