Why do people buy kindles instead of just reading books on their tablets or phones? (literature.cafe)

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I've never used one but it struck me as odd that people would use a seperate device for smth so easily done on your phone.

Is there smth special about the hardware? Is it better somehow?

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[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

It’s okay. After the apocalypse you won’t have electricity, but you will have as much time to read books as you like.

Unfortunately, your glasses will break and , unable to zoom in like you would on your kindle, you won’t be able to read anything.

I saw a documentary about this once. Although why the person doesn’t then just walk over to the drug store and pick up some reading glasses, I’ll never understand.

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