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Originally Posted by leebase
Now with cheap tablets and large screen smartphones....there's fewer and fewer places for eInk to gain the advantage beyond "reading in sun".
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There is one big thing that is always forgotten.
E-ink looks different. A tablet *always* looks lighted, as it always needs to be brighter than the ambient light to be able to see anything.
A non-lit ereader obviously never looks lighted, and can be read as-is in bright light. A lit e-reader can be set in such a way that the front-light supplements the ambient light, in such a way that the device just appears brighter, but still not looks like its lighted as a tablet will.
In short, a tablet always looks like a screen. An e-ink device doesn't, or at least doesn't have to. Believe it or not, for many people this is a big factor for preferring e-ink.