Seems like no matter how good the display and build quality, all eBook readers are bound to stop holding a charge after 3-4 years. I feel like the ongoing availability of newly-produced replacement batteries and the difficulty of replacing them are the primary factors in choosing an ebook reader.
My 2015 Paperwhite barely lasts 20 minutes after I pull the charging cable, even back in 2018 it was down from two weeks to two days per charge.
It's not like you can avoid the problem by loading up on extra batteries. A replacement battery manufactured shortly after the reader is going to be as bad as the one that came installed by the time I need it.
All the other problems I worry about like responsiveness, display quality and defects apply early on when a refund or warranty replacement is a solution.
They can make it work in a barren hellscape with less than a hundred characters, but not in a bustling urban setting as densely populated as Manhattan, I wouldn't call that weird at all.
> you need a guiding hand to keep that top spinning and not tumbling over, so you need the Second Foundation to be The Management
That's where your anthropic principle ends, though, halfway through the trilogy. From there on out the original protagonists can't win without a new "special" set of characters blessed with superhuman abilities.
> A perfect summary. "Foundation" trilogy is essentially a novelization of the generalized anthropic principle[0]: protagonists aren't special, the only reason we're reading about particular characters and not some others is because those people happened to be at the right place and time during pivotal moments in history.
That "anthropic principle" goes out the window pretty quick in book 2 when a super-powered mutant becomes the antagonist.
Seems like no matter how good the display and build quality, all eBook readers are bound to stop holding a charge after 3-4 years. I feel like the ongoing availability of newly-produced replacement batteries and the difficulty of replacing them are the primary factors in choosing an ebook reader.
My 2015 Paperwhite barely lasts 20 minutes after I pull the charging cable, even back in 2018 it was down from two weeks to two days per charge.
It's not like you can avoid the problem by loading up on extra batteries. A replacement battery manufactured shortly after the reader is going to be as bad as the one that came installed by the time I need it.
All the other problems I worry about like responsiveness, display quality and defects apply early on when a refund or warranty replacement is a solution.