Reply to: by cmasontaylor

Amazon alone has released about a dozen e-reader models. Barnes & Noble and Sony are major competitors, and there’s scads of minor ones. It’s not as big a market as say, tablets, but E-ink readers serve a specific purpose: the best text reading experience currently available, both for indoors and in the brightest direct sunlight, in a paperback-sized form factor, with weeks of battery life and access to an immense library of near-instant book downloads (assuming you have a 3G model or are on WiFi). They’re not for checking your email. They’re not for watching videos. They’re for reading.

One of the current trade-offs of E-ink is that it’s not available in color. Just like one of the current trade-offs of cars is that they cannot fly. Conceivably, color could be a useful feature for E-ink in the future, just as flying could be a useful feature for cars. But you review things within the limitations of what’s currently available, not your personal desire for fictional, nonexistent tech.