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Originally Posted by radleyp
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.
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Understood. I've never found backlight to be a problem, but everyone's vision differs. If it
is an issue for you, eInk is an apt solution.
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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.
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This is far more subjective. I haven't found that to be an issue at all, though I can see where poetry might present a challenge. I don't read that much poetry, and read that in paper editions when I do so. Some formatting really doesn't adapt well to smaller screens, particularly when lines may be wrapped by the viewer in ways that interfere with what the formatting was intended to do.
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Yes, color would be better, but for me reading in black (grey?) and white in eink is better than ereader on a pda.
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One of the nice things about the technology is that there are a wide range of solutions. If reading on a PDA doesn't do it for you, you have other options like eInk.
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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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I don't need that ability, though I have it in a pinch. Should I be in that position, I'll think hard about how I got into it, and how to get out of it again. (At my former employer, the IT folks used IM to communicate. I stated that I would install an IM client only when given a direct order. I got quite enough interruptions, thank you, without adding that one. The issue finally went away when a co-worker in a conference call said "The nice thing about Dennis is that if he's at his desk and you call him, he picks up first ring. If he doesn't pick up, he's not at his desk, and you won't get him in IM, either!" Bless you. co-worker. No further nags about not being on IM...)
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Dennis