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Originally Posted by Alisa
I agree. Even for that, I still prefer my smartphone despite its small screen. Page draws take forever with the e-ink. I am not a patient woman. Wikipedia is great on it but that's a supported rather than experimental feature. If web browsing is important to you, I think a tablet PC or UMPC would make you much happier than any of the the e-ink devices. I'm sure someday in the not too distant future, we'll have lovely displays that are as kind on the eyes as e-ink but fast enough to support more applications. IMO, we're not there yet.
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Yeah, the kind on the eyes bit is the most important thing for me, and, from what I can gather and correct me if I am wrong, there really is no much for that in terms of eink devices and other technologies on the market. I am getting increasingly tired to read more than a few paragraphs of text on my laptop, let alone a few pages of a scientific document or a full article on wikipedia say. And besides that, there's something about the whole affair, be it multitasking, be it a conditioned response or the fan on the cpu say, that I can't attain the same level of concentration as I do with a book or a few printed pages at hand...
I hear what you guys are saying about refresh rates, but I wouldn't want anything more than some primitive browsing function, seeing as I am really looking to replace some static article reading on my (future) ebook device instead of some flash playing website say. I just want to get away from the pc screen, being there all the time, you know, there are some lengthy articles that I would like to go over like reading a book, and not going into the trouble of first looking them up on my laptop, saving them to .html, and then transfering them to my ebook device.
So, Harry, can you really browse the net on the iliad, I mean the average user, or is it some super computer literate trick one has to pull to do that?
Jackie.