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Originally Posted by elcreative
Toddos and stonetools... being a smartass doesn't make you right... i use computer screens of very high quality both in my home and work environment and they're fine for graphic work and anything where I don't continuously stay absorbed with the content in the manner of reading a book.
Stonetools condescending quote: "I'm not even going to get into the absurd "LCD causes migraines" debate . That myth belongs with "There's a plesiosaur living in Noch Ness" collection of debunked hype. Poor lighting and poor monitors causes eyestrain, not LCD monitors as such," which deals with things he knows nothing about... I happen to work in conditions with excellent lighting using top level screens with great ppi and I still find extended reading on an eInk screen vastly more preferable to LCDs whether by day or night... and I've never got a migraine reading from eInk but I have from working on an LCD screen... ooooh wait , that's - anecdotal - evidence... well, when you get a condition that makes you feel like banging your head on a wall to reduce the pain in your head then you can damn well volunteer to prove your theory is right... me, I prefer NOT to get a migraine in the first place... you can have as many half-assed theories as you like but if it's a choice between migraine and no migraine then all sufferers know what to choose... and funnily enough, one of the things known about migraine is that it is NOT triggered by eyestrain so there goes that one anyway...
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Well, I do feel your pain if you have migraines and if you feel LED screens cause your migraines, I'm not going to doubt your experience. My anecdata is that my wife had migraines and those weren't set off by looking at LEDs- which is a good thing becasuse she is on the computer at her job all day . Regardless, no scientific studies have established that merely watching LED screens cause migraines and I'm going to go with the scientists on this one.
Again, if we are talking solely about ebooks that are text only (that's most ebooks) and reading in good light only (that's most reading) then e-ink is best. Otherwise, LED screens are better in almost every other kind of reading experience (save for the small but important minority whose migraines are possibly caused by reading from LED screens). How's that?
My exasperation has been because this theological debate has been held many times on this forum, as the most cursory search would have revealed. How many times are we going to rechew this cud?