“As tablets lose weight, so do e-readers. As tablets get cheaper, so do e-readers. As tablets get longer battery lives, so do e-readers. With the (large) exception of the screens, tablets and e-readers are using the same classes of components, the same batteries, and the same manufacturing processes. But e-ink readers have far lower hardware and power needs, so e-readers should maintain their advantages over tablets for quite some time: the best e-reader on the market today costs $79, weighs less than a third as much as an iPad 2, and has a battery that lasts a month. That’s a huge gap that won’t be filled with incremental hardware improvements.”
“The E-Reader, as we know it, is doomed” – Marco.org
I agree with this response (Marco’s argument, BTW, is that it’s NOT doomed, although the post title is misleading). Based on what I’ve heard about Pixel Qi and Mirasol, it is going to be quite awhile before a best-of-both-worlds tech is developed. (says the owner and user of both a tablet and an e-reader)
