http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/ Engadget Comments for China Mobile to offer subsidized e-ink reader http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/Sep 11th 2009 4:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/
The reason is that books get dropped, slapped, and deal with crums and drinks. They are very durable. E books should be too. I should not have to worry as much about my ereader when I read it by the pool, or if I drop it.

I hope the technology moves to cheap rugged instead of super fancy awesome. I'm sure it will go both ways to some extent, but for most folks, it just doesn't make sense to replace your paper book with something that is basically inferior.]]>Sep 11th 2009 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/Sep 11th 2009 4:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/Maybe he likes dog-ears. ]]>Sep 11th 2009 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/Drop ebook into the pool.
Now you know why paper books are superior - you can still read it afterwards. Besides, price-wise its the same - hundreds of paper books or one e-book reader with hundreds of e-books.]]>Sep 11th 2009 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/Sep 11th 2009 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/
Anyways... that 30,000 page flips sounds just a weeeee bit exaggerated. Especially with that Touchscreen. Speaking of which, I wonder if it lets you input sinographs? And yeah, just how much will this actually costs after subsidizing?]]>Sep 11th 2009 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/It's much easier to change the past when you can do it digitally.]]>Sep 11th 2009 6:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/Sep 11th 2009 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/Sep 11th 2009 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/]]>Sep 11th 2009 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/Sep 11th 2009 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/Sep 11th 2009 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/Sep 12th 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/china-mobile-to-offer-subsidized-e-ink-reader/
How do you even pronounce that?]]>Sep 13th 2009 3:50AM