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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.
So far, the only device that actually showed the benefit of an Eink screen was the PRS-500. Mine had a 3 week battery life. (I think the reason it had such great battery life was good hardware design, not the screen.) The Cybook and Kindle get about a week, and from what I've heard the 505 gets around 2 weeks.
I have several devices that have a battery life of a week or more. Almost all have LCD screens.
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There is another and a lot more important benefit of eInk over LCD. The technology itself that is easy on my eyes. No eye strain anymore, thank you very much. No LCD device comes even close in comparison. eInk wins hands down.