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Sirmaru, to you there is no difference between a backlit monitor and an e-ink reader. I'm 72 and I submit that there certainly is: gazing into a light that reflects back in your eyes is tiring (looking into a light is what I used to do in my days of taking color slides and then displaying them on a lightbox). With an eink reader I find myself reading for longer periods of time. But then I don't understand your other reading habits either: a 24" monitor is far too wide for me, since when I am speed reading I can go down the middle of a normal page. And then, of course, as pointed out to you in another thread, such a monitor makes it impossible to read in anything other than an upright sitting position (and I hate to think what could happen if you balance the monitor on your knees and it falls). IOW, reading on a 24" monitor is no longer reading a book at all: no one is going to go blind doing it, but for most of us it's an ordeal.
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