I can see the use of a small firm factor e-reader I can take with me everywhere. I often find myself in situations where I could read a few pages of a book to keep myself busy, but I find the reading experience on a smartphone to be generally awful and I can’t be bothered to whip out my regular e-reader in those situations.

What I would absolutely need however is some way to synchronize my reading progress with my other devices so that I can use it as a backup reader rather than being forced to go through the whole book on a single, sub-optimal reader. From a quick glance on their website, it unfortunately doesn’t seem like it’s an existing feature

I’m sure some hearts got really warm in that headquarters, with the fire and all