https://media.wired.com/photos/6938a3ba3f357ab2a44d03b1/mast...

My daughter loves it: she reads on it and does homeworks on it.

It's the "tablet" that kids could he allowed to use: slow refresh rate (no videogames), can only read books and write.

And that's what she does! She reads books and writes on it, along with sketching or drawing mazes.

You CAN write directly, but only to PDFs.

Epub and kindle get the notes slapped in a box of some kind.

The other thing they miss is that most ereaders don't have access to kindle's huge book catalog. A few full-on android devices do, but given the very outdated version of android they have, they night get cut out (as is happening for some) from the Kindle app, so no more books.

( if you are not familiar, here is a sample. The device on the left has a color screen: https://i.imgur.com/4W7YZu3.png )

Personally, I need to not stare at a screen at some point and need to use print. It would be great if Amazon or someone else had a service that would take pdfs and epubs print them as mass market paperback and ships it to you. A lot of content is kindle/digital only these days unfortunately. I would think it won't cost > $20 per-print, I'd be willing to pay twice that plus shipping. Even for older books, you can only get used versions, and even then if you're lucky. It would be nice if the digital versions were available for on-demand printing.

Two critiques: - Kindle would be a much better product if kindle.amazon.com took me to a dedicated UX that is not washed out by the e-commerce bloat that currently surrounds it. - You have to carefully purchase Kindle editions of books. There are definitely Kindle edition books for sale that are digitally scanned, imported, and compiled as a Kindle edition with no proof reading having occurred leaving you stuck with typo riddled messes.