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Originally Posted by Joe Minton
jessie102 + others:
It is 'clearly' superior to my Sonys in clarity, sharpness and versatility. I can read any format from any source on the iPod. --- It is the superior reading device, excluding battery charge intervals which is no problem for most of us.
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I have short-sightedness and moderate astigmatism. I can read an old book with degraded text (low res) and heavily yellowed paper (low contrast) for hours on end without tiring my eyes out. When I read a novel off any kind of LCD screen, whether it be laptop or iPhone 4's high res "retina" display, it really does my eyes and head in after an hour... I don't know whether it's the birghtness of the back-light or the flickering but I find it a very tiring experience.
I never have that problem with e-ink. The letters might not be as smooth nor the contrast as great as the high-res, back-lit lcd on my iPhone4. But the thing is resolution and contrast have never been an issue for me. I just needed a device that took up less space than a fat book; something I could easily read on the train, out at lunch (or just around the house) and something that wasn't the equivalent of shining a flickering light into my eyes (what any LCD essentially is). To me e-ink just replicates the experience of reading from paper better than a transmissive screen ever could.
I don't think there is a single device out there yet that one could say is objectively the superior reader... The future will probably be a high-resolution, colour, video capable, "transflective" display. But until then what the superior reading device is will be a subjective term that depends on individuals' eyesight and other needs.