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darby_eight | 1 year ago

They've been the benchmark for amazon kindle books. They suck for pdfs or anything with graphics.

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tonymet|1 year ago

Again, you're confusing market success with quality. Many beautiful products fail and many awful products succeed.

I'm talking about aesthetics. In this case, elegance, utility, responsiveness, durability, efficiency .

Tagbert|1 year ago

you are confusing your needs with the use case of the Kindle which is heavily focused on linear reading of text, mostly fiction. Graphics and PDFs are much lower on the priority scale.

t-3|1 year ago

PDFs and comics are not a small use case at all - the push to larger screens is mostly driven by people who want to read scientific papers, business documents, etc which come in pdf form, or manga and other graphical works (the drive for color ereaders seems to come almost entirely from this segment). The smaller "ebook only" readers are much cheaper and marketed less aggressively.

darby_eight|1 year ago

> Graphics and PDFs are much lower on the priority scale.

Unless of course you read books that have graphics or come in pdf form.