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Originally Posted by cutterjohn42
Wow! How can you stand to read on a notebook or desktop? I NEVER could, always used a PDA or dedicated reader of some type or failing that treeware.
Sunlight: you're absolutely 100% correct if it's not a Pixel Qi display. (Dear coldsun, this has absolutely nothing to do with health problems, but simple adequate readability in certain lighting conditions, so none of your beating dead horses please.)
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Its not beating a dead horse to talk about lighting conditions. My specific rant has to do with seeing the same post by the same people in forums and threads that are specifically about LCD readers. In these posts they claim that LCD is bad for the eyes and causes more strain. Which device you prefer is just a matter of your taste or visual preference. I've seen people post here that eInk hurts their eyes when they read in low light, just as I've seen people post that LCD hurts their eyes and eINk is better for them.
Well-lit Conditions (outside or brightly-lit room)
- eInk is superior: The technology displays just like a paper book and does not have any glare
- LCD has too much glare and the backlight interferes with outside reading completely
Low-light Conditions (No light or lamp needed)
- LCD is superior: the backlight illuminates the entire screen evenly and no lamp or light is needed.
- eInk has no backlight and must have a lamp or attached LED light which does not evenly distribute the light on the page.
Other than the above, the fact that eInk has much better battery life is also a great boon to the device preference. All around, an eInk screen emulates the feeling of reading from a paper book far more than reading from an LCD. If reading from paper isn't important, you may be more inclined to read from LCD or even own both devices - like I do.
I know my post sounded a little harsh, but somewhere we have to agree to disagree and just talk about devices. My apologies if what I said was offensive.