I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.

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      Comics and graphic novels mostly. Maybe scientific papers and textbooks.

      Oh you mean the point for Amazon? Extract money

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        Ha, good response. Didn’t know people got comic books on Kindle. Thought the point was having/collecting the physical ones.

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          Well, once you have a room full of long boxes, you kinda have to either become rich enough to build a new house with dedicated comic storage, or you start looking at digital.

          Half joke aside (because good luck affording a house nowadays), reading comics digitally is actually very nice, but being able to have and store an entire published history of a comic on a single drive instead of taking up multiple boxes is too damn nice to ignore. And that’s assuming you’re paying for the digital version. If you pirate, the money issue is a major decrease in resources needed to enjoy comics. Hard to pirate physical copies of the very old and rare stuff, but easy to find digitally.

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      Because if you read the article, it says it has a battery life of several weeks.

      Name one fucking color display tablet that can be used every day for over a week on batteries without charging? I’ll buy it tonight.

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      No clue. I read on a $20 tablet I got off Amazon. With the app that suits you, why not indeed? It’s a total POS for anything but reading, but I bought it for an epub reader.