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Originally Posted by JeremyZ
It is because lots of people don't understand that eInk is easier on the eyes. All they see is side-by-side features:
- Color vs. B&W
- Can read in the dark w/o an additional light
- Cheaper, for the feature set
I think a lot of us read all day on LCDs or CRTs, which are essentially light sources. This creates a lot of eye strain over a period of hours and hours. It's like looking at a dim light bulb for hours at a time.
Don't worry, they'll wise up some day.
For reading, I don't think color eInk is necessarily an advantage. I'm not anxiously awaiting it. It is going to come with a big price hike too, I'm sure. |
I prefer a well-made LCD screen over any well-made e-ink screen any day. The only reason I have an e-ink screen is because there are no 5" readers with a transflective LCD screen on the market (and PixelQi, which has continued the development of transflective screens isn't making any haste marketing their screens!)
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
eInk being easier on the eyes, eye strain, etc. are all subjective things.
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True, that.
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Originally Posted by sabredog
My eyes know! To me that is all that matters.
The last thing I want to do is spend yet more time leisure reading on a smaller backlit LCD device. My e-ink readers are exactly what my eyes need.
As for reading in darkness using a backlit PDA, I have done that many times to avoid waking my wife and suffered from it in the morning with eyestrain headaches. I either leave the light on or use my M-edge booklight. No eyestrain there for me, period!
Even when reading paperbacks with a bedside light on, I did not get eyestrain.
So at least to me, an e-ink reader with bedside or reader light prevents me getting eyestrain.
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I get more headaches using a bedlight or clip-on light than using a backlit LCD screen... I always had shadowy places, either because I was laying in the light myself (bedlight) or because that clip-on moved because I turned around, or I had to position it again, because it shone into my eyes (again, due to changing position in bed).
I do agree with one thing, with the OP though, we don't need the standard LCD screens, but the PixelQi or transflective screens!