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Dennis, I find the backlight OK for limited periods (say, 45 minutes - 1 hour), but after that I begin to see reflections, just as I do when I look directly into a bright light, and I must stop for a few moments. No such problem with eink. Paragraph formatting is critical for certain writers (Proust, Joyce, Mann, even dialogue-heavy writers like the great Dickens) and simply cannot be appreciated on 3-4" screens: poetry is still more of a problem and I remember trying to read Billy Collins (in ereader, which I have owned since it was peanut reader) on my T/X before finally giving up. Yes, color would be better, but for me reading in black (grey?) and white in eink is better than ereader on a pda. I don't need push email, but I need the ability to send text messages and emails when I have something (short, to be sure) to communicate and am not at my desktop. I don't have the perfect device yet, however, and probably never will have, so like you I'll just keep waiting and looking.
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