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Originally Posted by cfrizz
You may have this problem but I certainly don't, nor do lots of others on this board and out in the general public.
If you can read all day on your LCD monitor at work, you most certainly can do so with a tablet/phone.
I doubt anyone can see well with the sun glaring on a phone/tablet, so it stands to reason that would cause eyestrain. Nor are we meant to read in total darkness, we are not nocturnal creatures with eyes designed to do so. Would you go traipsing through the woods at night...I don't think so unless you want to walk into a tree. So why read in the dark.
This isn't a matter of being uninformed, it is a matter of applying common sense.
We all know, there was a time when the early lcd screens used to flicker, wobble etc. and could cause eyestrain. But that was years ago, and things have improved dramatically. But some just don't want to let it go/or even try the improved technology. They just go around declaring eink good/lcd tablet bad.
If eink floats your boat, have at it, but it doesn't mean that lcd is bad for all because it isn't.
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Agreed. The decreasing prices for LCD flatscreens themselves are an indication of technology evolving. I think LCD screens are fine for reading. I simply concur that EInk is better in most ways for reading, including aesthetically. During the times when I'm stuck with an LCD screen, I read and I think it's fine. But when I go back to my Kobo Glo (which I never take out from the house), I immediately renege on my temporary love for tablets as a reading device.