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Originally Posted by ColdSun
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.
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Yeah, I know, you gave me a beating a dead horse anim in one thread for basically posting the above in abbreviated form though and it was in that one thread where I saw that one guy complaining about LCD/eye problems thing and you guys were going back and forth offtopic about it.
You forgot Pixel Qi, and it looks like the Notion Ink Adam isn't vaporware after all, so you might want to add Pixel Qi to the best of both worlds...