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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
"Interested in colour" -- pretty much everyone.
"Willing to pay an extra $50" -- less than everyone.
"Willing to pay an extra $100" -- a lot less than everyone.
"Willing to put up with loss of bw contrast to get colour" -- again, substantially far from everyone.
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I used to believe that colour in a book is really just a luxury till about a year ago when I started scanning p-books from my collection and converting them to e-books.
Most of them are non-fiction. First I thought that scanning in black-and-white mode would be OK for nearly all of them. Only later did I realise how many had diagrams, illustrations, maps etc. which turned out meaningless after converting to b-w. Decent 256 grayscale would really be a minimum for all those illustrations and for some (especially those from my wife's medical books) color is indispensable.
So my next e-book reader will either need to have color or at least decent (and fast!) rendering of grayscale images. But, obviously, there is a limit to how much I am going to spend. If there's a choice between rather sluggish device with e-ink for $150 and a fast one with color screen for $300, then I am willing to pay twice the price. (By "fast" I mean fast in every respect - rendering graphics, opening books, scrolling through the book list, turning pages, searching etc.) Ipad is relatively fast, but the price is too steep for me.