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Originally Posted by schmidt349
1. That's really extraordinary. Something like 99% of the population suffers from severe presbyopia due to lens hardening by the age of 72. (hence the term "presbyopia," which literally means "old-sight").
2. I think your strongly negative emotional reaction to e-readers like the Kindle may be driven by an unwillingness to accept that you're suffering from age-related visual decline. You can't see the Kindle or paper books very well at all because you can't get sufficient illumination to read them properly, as a result of which you get defensive and blame the problem on the books/devices rather than yourself.
3. At your age, a nice big high-resolution LCD is an ideal reading device because it can overcome all age-related visual deficiencies. Something comparatively smaller with a high DPI is very nice for someone under 50 or used to wearing reading glasses because there's much less chance of eyestrain when you aren't reading with the aid of a CCFL backlight that's flickering at the mains frequency (or up to 85Hz, if you're lucky).
4. I guess what I'm trying to tell you is this: don't claim that the Kindle or any other electrophoretic display device is "flawed" because it doesn't meet your reading needs.
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1. My Ophpthamologist tells me I am the ONLY patient of his in my age group to still have 20/20 vision without compensating problems of cataracts or glaucoma.
2. You could be correct about this. However, why should I be disadvantaged by not using a 24" HD LCD Monitor which is very comfortable for me.
3. You are absolutely correct about this. However, I do not notice any flicker at all on my monitor and never get any eyestrain.
4. The "flaw" was not providing a PC reader as Sony DOES with the eBook Library to supplement the Sony PRS 505 Eprint Reader. I capitalized the word, "flaw," for effect since it totally blocks me from purchasing their book files for reading on my PC.