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Originally Posted by ApK
...Plus, Even if it were comfortable, I'd prefer not to jump through hoops re-configuring brightness and settings, using dimness apps, whatever...
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But there are reading applications that allow one to set an essentially infinite range of colours for both "paper" and text, and for brightness (so one can mimic whatever E Ink screen one prefers-given that they are not all the same-if that is what is wanted). That is so for at least Windows small devices and it would be surprising if, given the far larger range of applications available for Android, Apple, etc. devices, such did not exist for them.
The setting persists between sessions so there is no need to jump through the hoops that you imagine exist.
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Originally Posted by ApK
... Better to open the ereader and have it be perfect from the get-go...
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In fact an E Ink screen will not "be perfect from the get-go..." as you claim. The quality of the display colours and contrast (such contrast as their is) is dependant on the colour, intensity and angle of incidence of the ambient light in the environment of the time.
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My personal take on the LCD is no good for reading compared to E Ink belief is that many are just repeating what they have heard from the chattering classes, are imagining it, or have tried it but do not know how to select and set up a reading application for best viewing (whereas E Ink is pretty much inflexible so makes no demands on knowledge to set up).
This is much like when computer mice first appeared and there was a flood of claims that they caused RSI, then "disputes" as to which was best between key strokes, mice and roller balls. In the end most everyone ended up using mice and there is no current epidemic of RSI because of it, it was all just in people's minds.
I suspect that as time goes on, especially as now young people who already spend their lives with their faces in LCD and AMOLED displays with no imagined physiological complaints become the predominant users of devices, E Ink will become a smaller and smaller proportion of displays used for reading. It is already facing difficulties as the ownership history of E Ink Corporation and its annual reports seem to show. Their annual reports are repetitive from year to year, a lot of words about future products and anticipated demand for them but no evidence that those claims are being realised in the market.
Now I do accept that there are some eye diseases that may make one display type or another easier for the user (likely because of contrast). But in that case the user should be in the care of evidence based medical care. If a difficulty is experienced with a display technology and one is not in such care it may, in my view, pay to get ones eyes checked out.
It is, of course, no issue to have a display preference, but the fact is that E Ink is becoming the preferred display of a reducing proportion of small devices used for reading users. For myself, I read on all of LCD, AMOLED and E Ink displays; the only reason I use an E Ink reader is that when I got it small devices around 6-7 inch in LCD or AMOLED were rare, when it dies it will be replaced with non-E Ink device of similar, or a little larger size and a reading application that gives me flexibility from both the ability to create the "black" on "white" in the purity levels I like, plus display images, should there be any, in that text in their true colours.
One of the repeated claims by E Ink proponents in threads such as this is that E Ink displays give black on white; in my view those making such claims are to be ignored because E Ink does not give black on white at all, it gives a very low contrast impure black on an impure white (all of which is dependant also on the colour of the ambient light at the time e.g. warm or cool temperature, and so out of the control of the user).