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Originally Posted by Conan46
5-10 years ago E-ink looked like it was going to be so good it would end up on laptop computers. It has barely moved an inch over the past decade. We still do not have color e-ink devices in the mainstream and affordable. Meanwhile, led/lcd screens keep leaping forward, battery life increases, Android's operating system keeps improving. I was all in about a decade ago for e-ink, but mostly 6" black and white screens haven't excited me. I would have expected a 10" color e-ink device in the mainstream by now. I think e-ink at its snail pace of improvement hasn't gained much ground compared to years ago. Indeed, my first e-ink Kindle had more features than my last Paperwhite 3 exception only being the light on the Paperwhite.
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I guess I look at it completely differently. Nothing about LCD screens "excite" me. I still find eInk superior for reading – now that I've found how to embed Constantia font into ePub documents, I'm finding my eight and ten year old Sony eReaders to be even better. I don't see the need for color eInk screens (I mostly read novels and non-fiction – not manuals or magazines). I like the battery life, size and clarity (and lack of eyestrain) on the non-front-lit eReaders and find them superior to any other electronic medium. I don't really see any real need for improvement.
So, for me, the eInk screen (alone) is superior to LCD or LED. When you add in the smaller size and much better battery life, it's not even close. Tablets still have a long, long way to go to catch up to eInk eReaders.
And Android doesn't do anything for me either. Even my phone uses Blackberry's OS10.