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by JulianMorrison 4151 days ago
We have devices nowadays that put effort into battery economy high up their list of priorities. Kindles are an example. Their common features: they tend to be single-purpose devices, they tend to have crappy displays like e-ink or black-and-grey LCD, and to the extent they are general-purpose, they aren't effective or much fun.

So they would never have been tablets or laptops. They would have stayed as e-readers and PDAs and so forth.
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patrickk 4151 days ago
> Their common features: they tend to be single-purpose devices, they tend to have crappy displays like e-ink or black-and-grey LCD, and to the extent they are general-purpose, they aren't effective or much fun.

I like the fact that Kindles have e-ink and are single purpose. When I read on a backlit screen, it tires my eyes and its easy to get distracted from your book with SMS etc. E-ink is perfect for me, for distraction-free reading.

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