E-reader or tablet?

[the_tyrant]

I suppose using your yoga in tablet mode is a bit too heavy for ya?

The advantages of e-readers vs tablets (in my opinion) are:

E-reader advatages:
Lasts forever on a charge
Light
screen looks good outside
significantly cheaper

E-reader disadvantages:
Only good for reading "books", no pictures, just text
Can't do anything but reading
Screen sizes are generally smaller
Your sources of content are pretty limited (can't read anything but published books, no comics or fanfic)

Tablet Advantages:
Huge selection of content
Color screen!
You can do much more than just reading (videos, pictures web browsing)
You can read things with pictures (magazines, comics, etc)
comes in huge variety of sizes (7 inch - 21 inches!)


Tablet Disadvantages:
significantly more expensive
screen is harder to seen in sunlight
battery life is much, much worse


PS: Tablets aren't that much more expensive to be honest. The Blackberry Playbook is only 99$. Its pretty bad, but hey, its solidly built, and "pretty bad" for a tablet is still pretty good for an e-reader.

PPS: Fold your yoga's screen back, and use it in portrait mode. If you can stand the weight, its a decently capable way to read. I use to read on a 5 pound + laptop, so if you can't stand the weight, all I can say is, Bro, do you even lift!