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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Even so, the fact no one who has emphasized the equality/superiority of LCD had mentioned the smoothness and textural effect of e-ink on readability until I did suggests that stats and technical explanations of screen tech, as valuable as they are, cannot eliminate the validity of users' experience.
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Just for pure pedantry,
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Originally Posted by toddos
Due to the nature of pixels on LCD (perfect squares) vs. eink ( rough-edged squares), LCDs require a higher pixel density to produce as smooth letter forms. |
Also, while I agree with your stated need for comparing screens for oneself, I just want to point out what I've been pointing out -- you need to compare like to like. You can't compare reading on desktop/laptop monitor to reading on an eink device, yet that's often how the comparisons come out. "I stare at a PC screen all day and my eyes hurt. Therefore, I can't read on a handheld LCD device purpose-built for reading, with higher ppi, different backlighting, different fonts, different software, etc." If you compare like to like and you still decide that an eink device is preferable to you over an LCD device, okay. Great. Use an eink device. Nobody's telling you not to. But if you don't compare like to like and you flat out refuse to even try an LCD reading device because of your experience with completely unrelated technology, that's not exactly fair.