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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
So what have you got against color? Maybe it is not necessary, I don't feel the need for it, but if it is affordable and takes nothing away from the basic black and white display, why not? You say it is not possible to make color eink as good for black and white, which is possibly true at the moment or possibly just your opinion, but why should other people not have the choice?
Some people read comics and some even read non fiction on their ereaders.
How would it hurt anyone in any way if they could read in color if they want to?
Also in my world, no one roots their T2's or T1's and have no interest whatsoever in coolreader even on their tablets. They seem to favour Aldiko. We must live in different universes entirely  Of course many of my friends are IT professionals who feel they spend too much time already dealing with tech problems and just want their toys to work without any jumping through hoops.
Helen |
Look, the person to whom I was replying clearly has various iDevices with color already - with much better color than e-ink will ever have.
For other people - sure, you may buy Ectaco if you want and enjoy its pale barely visible colors and nicely colored out of focus pale black and white text.
But please don't make Sony to switch to color!
And when you say
"...have no interest whatsoever in coolreader even on their tablets"
that tells me that we really are from different worlds.
even on their tablets? - that is a shocking statement to me.
I would never ever consider a tablet as suitable for reading books - why would anybody need a Cool Reader on a tablet?
For Cool Reader you buy T2 and root it. That how it is done.
In my opinion, iPad is good for one thing only: as a gift.
For reading books you should use an e-ink reader
For watching movies you should use a large plasma TV. Or even larger projector for 3D.
For listening music use high quality tube amplifiers with golden wires and with tubes replaced by the pre-ww2 ones.
For computing, or even typing e-mails - use PC with a real, not virtual, high quality truly ergonomic keyboard (not some anti-ergonomic microsoft Natural but Kinesis, or Darwin, or Maltron or something like that).
I am of the same opinion about laptop or notebook computers as well.
I am yet to meet one with an ergonomic keyboard.
They are just as useless to me as iPad is.
If I have to attach an external keyboard anyway, I'd rather attach it to a full tower PC with a system of 2-3 high quality large monitors.
But for reading books you need a rooted T2
And the question, why people need to root and not to use an e-reader right out-of-the-box - this is a question to Sony, not to me.
Yes, they should have Cool Reader pre-installed. Or an equivalent adequate software. Not the c-word they are putting in T2.