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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 6170838" data-attributes="member: 73683">No, I just hear the same comments from people repeatedly about why physical books are better than e-readers, and they're the same arguments every time: you have to charge them, it's hard to read in light/dark, it's uncomfortable, it's hard to find a specific page, etc.The vast majority of these are false or so minor (charging) as to be non-issues. I almost invariably walk away with the impression that the people complaining about e-readers have never actually used one."The average reader"? What e-readers have you used? The Kindle Paperwhite weighs 7.5 ounces, which is less than your average trade paperback (about 9 ounces), and is designed to be comfortable to hold while reading like you would a book. The regular Kindle weighs even less. Again, a Kindle Fire is not an e-reader. It is a tablet computer.That's not how most e-readers work. The Kindle, for instance, has buttons on both the left and right sides of the e-reader that allow you to press to flip a page, much the same way as if you were flipping an actual book. They are also specifically designed so that you can read with one hand, including the ability to flip to a previous page without changing hands.See, this is the stuff I'm talking about. You've tried to use a tablet as an e-reader and you're judging actual e-readers based on your experience with the tablet, and the things you are saying as a result are flat-out wrong. e-readers are lighter, hold charges forever, can be used with one hand, etc. Almost every one of what you describe as the downsides of e-readers doesn't actually exist in e-readers.</blockquote>

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