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Originally Posted by Nate the great
There is a competing technology: LCD.
The only real benefit of Eink is it uses less energy than an LCD. But if you have the Eink screen in a reader with a moderately powerful CPU, the power savings are negligible. Most of the power is consumed by the electronics, not the screen.
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Also note that because en eInk screen doesn't refresh it is MUCH easier on the eye just like an, erm, book! (Although I personally do not suffer headache from staring at an LCD screen all day at work I know people who do and also, for me, eInk is definitely less tiring than reading from an LCD screen).
Also (and this is major IMHO) - as long as the ambient lighting is good enough to read a book then you I can read my PRS-505 - that includes fairly low 'ambient' lighting in my bedroom of an evening to ultra bright sunlight on the beach in Sardinia a fortnight ago! Frankly I was amazed at the performance on the beach - it really came into its own.