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Originally Posted by ColdSun
As good as eink is for reading, especially outdoors, we are likely 5 years away (as you say) from having the ultimate reading technology. Until then maybe we can agree to have our iPads, Kindles, Nooks, and Tablets and be happy about it.
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I have given it some thought as to why most people think that E-Ink is better (medical issues aside). At the beginning of september I was in a store and I saw ereaders (all were E-ink, but that meant nothing to me at the time) and I was impressed by the battery life. None of the store clerks were around, and as the "impulse buy" feeling faded (yes, I get that even for expensive things) I decided to go home and make an educated decision based on research. I don't remember exactly how many websites I visited that day, but I am sure that all the ereaders that I looked at had E-ink and I must have seen at least a dozen statements of "E-INK LOOKS JUST LIKE REAL PAPER!" (the ereaders in the store didn't look that way to me, but anyway).
Now the point that I was trying to make with this story is that most of the people that bought ereaders (at least in the past year) did that because they feel that it is just like reading a real book. LCD can't give them that.