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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Couldn't care less about colour myself. And a faster page turn isn't a given either, that depends on the hardware, the same as with e-ink screens.
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Of course, if you don't care about color, then you don't care about color. If you look at the left side of the screen, you can see that I chose to buy an E-ink reader, so that wasn't an issue for me. But color is an advantage of LCD, and the list was meant to be general.
The way that E-ink works limits the refresh speed. That can be improved up to a point, but it is not going to be as fast as an LCD can get. Of course you can stick the LCD screen to the cheapest hardware available, but I wasn't really trying to compare the cheapest LCD device to the most performant E-ink.
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
But what about a backlit screen? For some people that could be a very important advantage of LCD. So much even, that they won't even consider e-ink even though that might have some other advantages that they'd like.
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There was no point of going there since the argument on the E-ink side is that you can attach a reading lamp, and I'm not sure if there are more people who consider a backlit screen to be a problem, but they are definitely louder in an argument.
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
And reading outside: I can read perfectly outside on one of my LCD screens. Even in direct sunlight. So, that's also not only on e-ink screens.
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Fist of all, E-ink is made to be used with light shining on it, so all E-ink devices share that feature. And you are right, LCD screens do exist for that, and my phone has one, but I'm guessing that beside the loss in contrast, there would be a very high increase in price, to the point that it wouldn't make sense to use them for ereaders.
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People simply forget that there are so many different type of LCD screens that there is always one that will fit your need. No backlight? No problem, here you have a reflective screen. Reading outside? No problem, try this transflective screen. Colour? No problem, you have a choice between this transflective or this transparent screen.
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Yes, but they are going to get marketed for readers one at a time, and some won't get to that point since every thing has downsides, some of which might interfere with essential aspects of an ereader. I've used a knife instead of a screwdriver quite a few times, but nobody is going to market it for that.