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Originally Posted by honeybunny
Does any eInk device do auto-scrolling? I would think there would be a lot of flashing.
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Actually I also wrote page turning/scrolling. I added scrolling for clarification not as a want. I doubt any eink device would be able to scroll in their current state...but to be able to have auto-page turns might help some folks who cannot have any hands free while reading...as in at the gym, eating...whatever.
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Also, brecklundin, have you actually used a Kindle? The contrast is superb. Any more contrast and it would glare. Most paper books aren't stark white anymore, but dove grey or very pale yellow. The black-on-white and glare is a major complaint of LCD screens actually. As is backlighting, hence the choice to avoid backlighting.
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I have seen and used the Sony 505...same display...same marginal contrast ratio in lower light conditions. While I understand that for YOU the contrast is fine I wrote about what I need personally. The contrast ratio's of all eink display's I have physically seen or used, which includes Vizplex display's, is far from breathtaking. Except in direct sunlight...they RULE outside...
If all I needed was to read outside I'd slap a Boxweave anti-reflective screen protector on one, and they would be awesome.
Trust me the paper used today in PB's is far whiter then anything one would have bought in the past. To my eyes the contrast on eink displays is not close to even those OLD paperbacks under most lighting conditions. In the 40+ years I have been buying paperbacks never were the pages white. Always an tan-ish/yellow-ish white?? Really not sure what color I would call it but white it never was for certain.
Perhaps you are thinking of glossy pages in more text book like editions? Those glossy pages will drive a person NUTS in a well lit room or under a reading lamp. In fact for reference texts I buy I won't buy any with that high gloss paper.
BTW, I am not sure if, by definition, it's actually glare one sees, but rather reflections. I really dunno as both words get used to describe the issue. Or maybe either word is correct??? As far as I know glare is a bright shining light emitted from a thing...the light from the pages is reflected ambient/background light. The same holds true for the new trendy high gloss LCD displays...they reflect too much background light back at the user and are horrible to work. But because they look so pretty in the store people buy them and then wonder why they have such a difficult time using the thing for any length of time...and in a well lit office they can be almost impossible to use. I have recommended to all my clients for years to avoid those higher gloss displays. Even to the point of adding anti-reflective screen protectors to any existing displays.
Anyway, I was not intending to move this discussion in a direction away from the topic as there are numerous threads about contrast of these displays but just wanted to answer why I want/need a better contrast display.