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Originally Posted by cfrizz
I prefer backlit screens for reading since my eyes are bad and I don't want to strain them trying to read in poor lighting conditions! I love reading on my T1 outside sitting in the sun getting a tan and reading.  |
My eyes aren't exactly great either (without my glasses I'm quite literally legally blind in one eye) and I also find reading on back-lit LED/LCD screens works better on me for eye strain. I read on my Nook HD+ all the time, I probably spend an average of 7+ hours a day reading on it in fact, between books, manga, comics and browsing the web to read stuff. If I spend about 4 hours reading a paper book, my vision starts going blurry. Not so with the tablet. Also, if I read white text on black, it happens much, much faster. My vision can start blurring within 5 minutes! So I even tend to avoid web sites with a white on black theme.
So it's definitely not true that e-ink or paper is easier on the eyes for everyone.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
As for what gives me the impression that it is a hobbyist market: a tech product category that after seven years of continual development has only captured 3% of the market and still exists must be surviving off committed and dedicated hobbyists. The old laser disk market was just like that: it was a solid technology that really pleased its owners, who kept it afloat for years while the mainstream went with tape, and stayed with it even well into the DVD era.
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Heh, I got in on the very end of the LD era and picked up a LD player dirt cheap along with some LDs even more dirt cheap. Wasn't a bad deal.
