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Originally Posted by cfrizz
In your own way you people are just as much dinasaurs as the price fix BPH-5. You refuse to be flexible, you refuse to change, and you are the minority. So stick with your eink machines til they all die, the rest of us will continue marching on happily reading on whatever devices we have that can display ebooks, play music, make phone calls etc.
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I think you've given a good description of a casual reader vs a hard-core reader. I own a Kindle 3/keyboard, 2 other older eInk devices, an iPad and an iPhone. I keep a book on my iPhone so that I can read when it's the only device I have with me. I put the cookbooks and kids books on the iPad because its large color screen is conducive to enjoying those books. But for hard-core, heads-down, reading for many hours straight (can you say flight from LA to NYC?) it's eInk all the way. Easier on the eyes, easier on the battery.
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Originally Posted by Manabi
There are other reasons to want e-ink devices to innovate and the market for them grow. Those screens use vastly less power than LED/LCD screens, and if they can eventually get to where their refresh rate and colors are comparable, they would greatly benefit all portable devices. So even if you think dedicated e-book readers are a dinosaur, you should still want e-ink to develop and grow. Someday it might make your tablet devices even more awesome. (For the record, I prefer tablets and don't even own an e-ink device, but I do hope the screens pan out as a replacement technology because of those benefits.)
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Yeah, I'd like to see eInk become much more responsive so that a casual browser look-up --- particularly for terms which the dictionary doesn't recognize --- becomes viable. I'm not so keen for color eInk since I own a tablet and a PC/laptop for the things that really need color. I still like the idea of a dual-screen device with eInk for the text-rich experience and the back-lit screen for video and image-rich (and games!).
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Originally Posted by ingmar
Frontlights, e.g. Yes, we have those by now, but this is actually something that makes an ereader better than a regular book. Other areas that come to mind are search functionality, built-in dictionaries, note taking, beach-worthiness (Is that a word? I mean water and sand proof) etc. It's still a dedicated reading device, though.
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While I like multi-function devices such a a phone that can also play games and display video, when I'm reading, I don't *want* the distractions. That's one reason why I never got into reading on the PC even though I had discovered Baen and Project Gutenberg **long** before I got an eBook reader. The PC is home to my e-mail, the entire Web, and solitaire. I found I just couldn't concentrate on a book when I was trying to read on the computer.
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Originally Posted by fratermus
I can read longer without visual and physical fatigue on e-ink.
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Indeed. Which relates to my earlier comment about eInk being the best for someone who is going to read for a long time at one sitting.