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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
That type of dismissal of color always makes me laugh.
Astronomy, biology, chemistry, economics, investing .... Just a few examples of subjects that benefit from color photos, graphs and such. They seem plenty "serious" to me. It always surprises me how limited some people's perspective can be, that they think about color and think of nothing but fluff.
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I think you folks are getting a little defensive about the use of the term "serious readers". That term seems to be mainly used in these forums to refer to people who read lots of what we might think of as traditional books (novels, biographies, etc). I don't think it has anything to do with a sense of intellectual superiority. For those folks, a black-and-white e-ink reader probably is the best choice. If all I want to do is read detective fiction, Tolkien, and Discworld and Destroyer books, what is all that extra money spent on a iPad going to buy me? Nothing, except shorter battery life, tired eyes, and an inability to read outside in the sun. Oh, and look around at the beach, at the park, and in the campground. I see lots of people reading outside.
OTOH, color IS important for lots of other things. Who would want to look at a book of color photography in black and white? I read that the Kindle is not having the desired impact in the textbook market, and I would guess that color has something to do with that. Lots of graphs and charts and such probably don't come across well in black and white.
Some people need one, some need the other, and some need both. That's why my iPad will be arriving tomorrow to go along with my Graphite. Neither one will do the whole job for me.