09-05-2013, 12:12 PM | #61 |
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I don't know how long it will take to get to the Australian market, but I'll probably pass. I love my current PW and although the screen improvements seem pretty good, they also seem a bit incremental and probably not compelling enough for me to take the leap.
I held on to my K3 until Amazon delivered front light technology. Now I have it, I'm not sure what my next need is going to be. It might be a reasonable wait before I have an opportunity to buy, so I'll reassess then. |
09-05-2013, 12:47 PM | #62 |
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or instead of re-selling you could just order the new PW and send the old one back...and see if you'll get caught (i.e. if their handling guys notice the difference)
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09-05-2013, 12:51 PM | #63 |
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The incremental improvements in e-ink contrast over the past several years, and the unchanged 4-bit gray scale, make it uninteresting to me as a basic technology. 1/4 to 1/7th the contrast of paper? No thanks. 4-bit grayscale? No thanks. The tech isn't evolving into something I'm interested in buying into again.
100:1 contrast, 256 shades of gray , ~300 ppi, and I'm interested. E-ink isn't going to get there, ever, as far as I can tell. Very low power consumption is by far the biggest feature, and that's not enough. |
09-05-2013, 01:50 PM | #64 | |
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Have you ever read a printed book? They're much, much worse than what the current state of e-ink is at. |
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09-05-2013, 02:08 PM | #65 | |
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And the Kobo Aura HD is 265 ppi. So it's getting there. |
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09-05-2013, 02:24 PM | #66 | |
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It is no accident that ebook growth is seriously shrinking the market for that format; cost, convenience, ergonomics, text quality... even Vizplex 2-bit eink has them beat hands down. And that is before factoring in typographic controls. The frontlit screens may not be up to the quality of "folio-grade" collectibles, but they more than hold their own with the plebian hardcovers used for midlist titles these days. |
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09-06-2013, 01:06 AM | #67 | |
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While I do enjoy reading on my Nexus 7 and feel that it is the first LCD tablet that I can read comfortably on, the e-ink devices still offer a superior reading experience to me. It's more paper-like, and they offer much less distraction. I do agree that e-ink development is lacking a little in pace, but my desire for new toys aside and looked at the situation realistically, just for reading novels the current e-ink devices offer everything I need. |
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09-06-2013, 08:14 AM | #68 |
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09-06-2013, 10:35 AM | #69 |
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09-06-2013, 12:59 PM | #70 |
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Check out the pictures from this italian website. Extreme close up of the new Carta display in comparison to Pearl e-ink display.
http://www.eeevolution.it/e-ink-carta-specifiche/ |
09-06-2013, 01:26 PM | #71 | |
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09-07-2013, 11:54 AM | #72 |
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Anyone knows when B&M store like best buy will have this? I want to look and buy in person. Since amazon charges sales tax now I may as well support the B&M store.
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09-07-2013, 11:58 AM | #73 | |
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As it is, I don't even bother with looking at covers. |
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09-07-2013, 12:07 PM | #74 |
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Usually they don't show up in B&M stores for at least a few weeks after they start shipping to early Amazon buyers. Seems like last year it was several weeks after initial shipments went out.
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09-09-2013, 04:55 AM | #75 |
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Even cheap paperbacks have contrast of 50:1. Printer paper, and high quality book paper, is up to 100:1. That's why I said even the latest version is still 4x-7x worse than paper. Do some fact-checking. All other common display technologies are much higher than 100:1, btw. At e-ink's 15;1, there's no "white" and there's no "black" - only light gray and middle gray. "Paperwhite" is only aspirational, misleading marketing.
16 shades of gray IS 4-bit. With more shades, you can implement better font rendering at lower ppi counts; no reason to invoke viewing images to see a substantial improvement - text is reason enough. E-ink doesn't do "pixels" in the way we think of them in other technologies anyway, and that's another disadvantage. The size of the capsules varies a lot; look at microscopic images of an e-ink screen. With print and other display technologies, the pixel or dot size is much more accurately controlled. E-ink "pixels" are fuzzier and more irregular. |
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