The petition is interesting because it argues that e-readers’ value lies in the fact that they are inherently limited devices and that any non-reading functions they include, like experimental web browsers, are “rudimentary” and not very useful.
Amazon, for one, has at least come pretty darn close to advertising one of their readers as a tablet. One TV commercial I seem to recall compares their Fire to an iPad by showing how each reproduces a photograph, If it were up to me, I'd define e-readers as devices using an E-ink display and let it go at that. But it isn't and they won't and it doesn't matter much.
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