Yeeeah, but your e-book, with its limited app selection, color capacity and refresh rate, is way less of a functional computer than a tablet would be. It might be at some point in the future, but not right now. To me it's a choice between having a functional book and some sort of inferior untertablet, at least at the moment.
*shakes fist* Reader. My ebooks cannot into programs, unless something has gone terribly,
terribly wrong.
That said, it's... an android OS, and amazon didn't try nearly hard enough to lock the machine down to amount to much. The app selection's as good as anything mobile is and easily covers everything I actually want to use the thing for, and color capacity and refresh rate I give less than zero complimentary fornications about
I'm actually not sure why capacity matters at all, tbh. This thing's a fire, not an e-ink machine. It
is less functional than a lap/desktop, but... I don't need it to be that functional. It actually does about everything I'd want to do with a touchscreen, right now. Actually didn't think I'd be as fond of the thing when I got it as I am, now, and probably didn't when it was initially gifted to me, but after a few months of pointedly ignoring amazon and everything it wanted me to do and finagling the thing like a budget pimp in a back alley (and several more of just using the thing, after it was properly broken in) I'm pretty happy with it.
That said, circadian rhythm person above: Thing I use's called twilight. There's other f.lux equivalents, too. Helps
tremendously for low-light usability, particularly if you like curling up and reading before you go to sleep. Vis a vis the versus thing, I'm not actually against books (been a bibliophile of limited means most of my life, and still have trouble stopping myself from getting books on the cheap when I notice them), m'just pretty certain digital wins on... basically every front except maybe tactile and durability (and that one's iffy... there's different concerns involved). Like paper well enough but y'know. Library in pocket. All the rest of it's just garnish. It's very difficult to drag a library around with you otherwise, and when you can and often do go through a trade paperback in 3-4 hours or less, you kinda' need a library :V