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Originally Posted by mpd123
after reading various threads on the forum a common theme seems to be colour eink. my question is why? when you buy a pbook the cover it in colour but the part that matters- which is the text- is in black and white .what benefit is there from colour eink i just dont see it as an issue.
cheers , mick.
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I don't. But then again, I'm the chick who runs her KT in airplane mode all the time and hasn't updated her firmware because I don't care about any of the features.
I'm the most basic ereader user ever. All I do is read. Between books, sometimes I check Reading Life. That's it.
To me? Color eInk makes absolutely no difference. I'm not bothered by my covers being in black and white. I'm not a big comic reader, but even on the rare occasion I do read comics, I honestly can't imagine myself caring that much.
But that's just me. I can see color eInk being great for a lot of users - even students, as big-screen ereaders gain functionality and become learning tools. I can see how someone who is much more into comics than I am might long for a color screen.
I mean at the heart of it... who cares about ANY ereader, or most of the tech toys we have? None of them are actually necessarily for anything. They do things that could already be done before they were invented, just in a different way or a different form factor. And most of what they do is just pleasure activities. None of it is actually important. But for users who like color for whatever their reason might be...
It's an important development. It's just not important to
me.
A tech development is only as important as the user's desires. Thus why some readers don't care about ereaders and some do.
Personally, I'm holding out for bendy/plastic substrate screens. That's the tech I'm paying attention to. I tend to hold on to my things until they're utterly dead, so by the time I'm ready to upgrade hopefully they'll be available.