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Originally Posted by astra
Personal preference?
Someone likes red, someone likes blue.
If you like red and get pissed off that someone else dismisses beauty of red colour and likes blue....you have got a problem. Intolerance? Anger management?
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That is exactly my point. Looks like we have different nuances of the word "dismiss". I might have lowered the tension I was meaning to say, as I mean "dismissively, often condescendingly, rejects something". I myself prefer e-ink and not dismiss the idea that an lcd device can be a proper reading device, but even if I do not believe it, I would not attack others who do. I also believe in personal preferences, as you do, but I can't stand those I described above, who degrade others for being against their beliefs.
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Originally Posted by astra
I, personally, don't care one bit whether someone likes to read off of LCD.
I just dismiss any LCD screen based gadget as potential ebook reader. It is my opinion.
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It is your opinion, and I honored it.
Other things aside, as a reply to the OP, I myself prefer an e-ink reader, the reason being:
- I want to be able to read outdoors
- I hate charging and absolutely hates charging everyday (yes I hate my cellphone).
- I have problems with READING in extended time on LCD monitor (not in other uses, strangely)
All of these things might change as someone else has posted before, LCD haven't been developed to suit reading, and if the market is big enough it can compensate for the development resources needed, so I am not dismissing an LCD as a proper reading device, at least in the near future.
other reason that is not actually tied to e-ink vs lcd, but specialized device vs convergence device. I am an easily distracted person, and so I wish for a reading device which does the job and the job only, plus maybe anything directly connected to the act of reading. Put a little thing like a file explorer in it and there I go rearranging my ebooks and stuff.. So I want nothing in between me and my (e)books.
I believe I am not the only one like that, although some people might say it is a backward move...
