...with smaller e-book readers. 250g for the latter is far too heavy. Make it lighter than a light novel and you've got a product with an actual selling point, in fact, make that 'reason for existing'.
As for this majestic, large e-broadsheet reader, it is awesome, and in a way unfortunately highlights the relative superflousness of the product it's made to display: newspapers are a throwaway thing, full of opining, gossip, speculation, trivia - if a news item is really important it'll turn up in the history books anway. What was it Abe Lincoln said about not reading a paper from one month to another (hope I've my POTUSes right here), and being none the worse off for it? After all, before we were all addicted to the detroyer-of-time which is the internet - we - and by we I mean I - were addicted to our favourite newspaper(s).
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Now the removal of heavy parts would work...
...with smaller e-book readers. 250g for the latter is far too heavy. Make it lighter than a light novel and you've got a product with an actual selling point, in fact, make that 'reason for existing'.
As for this majestic, large e-broadsheet reader, it is awesome, and in a way unfortunately highlights the relative superflousness of the product it's made to display: newspapers are a throwaway thing, full of opining, gossip, speculation, trivia - if a news item is really important it'll turn up in the history books anway. What was it Abe Lincoln said about not reading a paper from one month to another (hope I've my POTUSes right here), and being none the worse off for it? After all, before we were all addicted to the detroyer-of-time which is the internet - we - and by we I mean I - were addicted to our favourite newspaper(s).