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Originally Posted by HarryT
I take the view that you can add lighting to an eInk screen very easily, but you cannot improve the quality of a "pre-lit" LCD screen. It seems like a sensible choice, therefore, to go for screen clarity over lighting when it comes to selecting built-in funtionality.
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True enough but one thing the eb1150 has going for it is that it is 1/3 to 1/2 the price of any of the e-ink devices. You have to already be a dedicated reader to spend the price of e-ink for a reader you are not too sure that you will like. You can't main stream any of the current shipped units to the mass market or get market acceptance, lighting not withstanding.
With regard to lighting.Some of the front lighting add ons look fairly good but I have not heard of a single reader that has added one of those and found them to be as good as what the 1150 has.
There has to be a cheap solution to legitimize the market and so far this is not e-ink. Besides the light situation there is no touch screen and it is not clear how easy it is to annotate, bookmark, add notes, do dictionary look up, search etc. which the eb1150 excells at (although returning to a bookmark could be improved). Don't forget cheap in the equation.
Dale