Quote:
Originally Posted by toddos
Just for pure pedantry, here:
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. |
You need to look at what I have written and what I use.
Before I purchased my first Sony e-ink ereader, I used a HP IPAQ PDA and a Samsung Omnia smartphone.
I have tried to read on my iphone4 with arguably the best LCD (retina) display available. I read comics and PDF reference books on my iPad2. Comics being short, mostly images and PDF being short term reference reading.
I KNOW what MY eyes prefer. Thus my preference above anything else is for an e-ink device.
In regards to comparison to a PC monitor type LCD, you need to understand that once bitten, once they dislike LCD screens for reading ebooks, people are not going to spend more money on another backlit LCD device that may or may not be better.
E-ink ereaders are designed to display ebooks as close to the pages of the DTB's they are replacing and they do this extremely well. LCD displays can not come close to replicating that.
That is a fact regardless to what side of the LCD vs e-ink divide you happen to be standing on.