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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I will acknowledge that not everbody can read on a tablet or phone just as soon as eink advocates stop implying that for "serious" or "hardcore" readers, eink is the only logical choice. The implications that tablet/phone readers must not be as "avid" (or must not read for the same lengths of time) as dedicated eink users is just as insulting as assuming those who claim to not be able to read comfortably on backlit lcds can't operate a dimmer setting. Same same.
For my part, there's just some deply-ingrained dogma (based on pseudo-science, confirmation bias and early adoption) that heralds eInk as the only choice for the "avid/serious" ereader that I find annoying as hell. I don't see any difference between that and the book sniffers who say the same thing about pbooks vs ebooks. It's pointless. So yeah... maybe no one in this particular thread is guily of it, but there's a pervading sentiment in ereader land that those of who read on lcd must only be "dabblers", and that makes some of us kick up our heels a little. It'll pass though. Just as soon as the myth of eink's inherent (and universal) superiority dies the death it deserves. 
*NOTE* I hope the myth dies, not the technology. I hope everybody's favorite reading technology is around for a long time to come. |
I think sometimes these defensive things come out when there is yet another blog, or story or thread on how e-ink is dead and long live all things tablet.
And how there isn't enough need for e-ink and how we just don't know how to properly use the light slider or find apps to make it work. I find that just as annoying and sometimes insulting.
I know for this (me) reader, e-ink is the only comfortable choice of reading. Especially for long blocks of reading. That is just a fact. I also know there are many others like me out there. That doesn't mean that others can't read hours and hours on tablets.
It just means we all exist and a market for all exist. We all just want to read.