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Originally Posted by varlog
Unfortunately, for reading, it's black on white for me only. Other combinations disagree with me. For instance: the web pages using other colors for text make me leave immediately. If I have to read them I try to get rid of css.
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Yes, I prefer not to use OTHER colours for reading books and so do not. However, I was not at all inferring that one goes to the likes of red on black or whatever (read my earlier post where I refer to the RGB model), but that there are "shades" of white. For example, I guarantee that whatever you read on you are in fact not getting pure white paper (although with AMOLED displays one will get pretty close to it) and pure black. And if one is using a matt screen (not likely for touch displays, but say on a small notebook) the matt will kill the white for a start. And if one is using E Ink then they are very, very low contrast displays (orders of magnitude less than LCD or OLED, for example) and so by definition they give very poor whites and blacks.
So what some reading applications give one is the ability to change the colours, but that does not mean that you have to go to colours other than blacks and whites. The example I gave in my earlier post of reading applications using the RGB additive model of using, say, RGB 255 255 241 (so reduces the blue slightly in the red, green, blue mix) gives a slight sand tint to the paper; if that slight tint seems too much then one can reduce it, or, as I suggested, grey the white slightly instead.
One can then, in effect, mimic the shades of black and white of an ereader screen as one likes, except that it will be backlit and capable of orders of magnitude greater contrast (if contrast should be wanted). And if one does not like backlit LCD screens there are small tablets (and plenty of large format phones) which are OLED and so not backlit, albeit quite expensive.
Some people seem very defensive of E Ink, but in my experience when people become defensive of some technology the gist is that the technology is dying and so is no longer able to stand on its own two legs. And in life I in fact I see fewer and fewer E Ink readers around, both on display in shops or being used, but more and more small tablets (which the shops are full of) and larger format phones being used for reading.
But in the end people can read on whatever they like as far as I am concerned, I am just pointing out my own observations and that flexible alternatives exist which it seems that many are unaware of (or actively do not want to be aware of
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For myself I most often still read on an E Ink device; there were no (or very few) tablets of similar small format around when I got that and a 6 inch reader is convenient for portability (but pathetic for illustrations and non or poorly reflowing PDFs). However, when that dies it will be replaced by a small format tablet for reading (LCD or OLED, that choice depending on generosity of pocket at the time).