e-readers -- not quite the death of paper

[zridling]

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[Mark0]

I would say he probably had too high expectation, or didn't really know what to expect from these devices & present state of the technology.

[Dormouse]

I don't think the Sony in the picture is the Touch, is it?

I agree that he really doesn't seem to have done his research. The Touch has a fair number of advantages, but contrast is not one of them - it is (slightly?) less good than many ebooks (including the other Sonys)  because of the extra coating the screen needs to make Touch work, so, if he needs better contrast, he should try a different reader.

How much you can read on a page really depends on your eyesight as well as the image; if your eyesight is really good close up, then you can read quite a lot on one of these. PDFs are a known problem area, but there shouldn't be any difficulty in changing the properties of a PDF (even if you do it by printing it into a PDF virtual printer).

[Mark0]

I don't think the Sony in the picture is the Touch, is it?

Right, that seems more the very old PRS 500, from about 4 years ago.