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Originally Posted by Alohamora
...If the tablets have already killed large format readers, as at least one person said up-thread, I think the same will happen with small format readers in the next 10 years.
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I think you are correct, maybe not killed but relegated into a very small niche market (as opposed to the larger niche market they are now in). This is my take on it.
I started reading on PDAs way back so on small LCD displays. When E Ink progressed a few generations I moved to E Ink, but was never happy with the inferior displays and remain so when reviewing current readers.
I think the young generation, also brought up with their noses in LCD or AMOLED phones (including large format ones), will be much the same and regard E Ink as inferior and not be coerced into E Ink by the misinformation (both technically incorrect and user management) promulgated by some about it.
As just one example, when people claim that LCD shines light into their eyes they are displaying a limitation of knowledge. Light reflected from displays such as E Ink is diffused, all LCD tablet displays also have diffused displays so both emit diffused light, neither "shines" light. Such people also seem to be unaware of, or incapable of setting up a tablet's display for reading despite the better reading applications providing effectively infinite control of background and text color, often background textures as well, superior greyscale, brightness (usually by a simple swipe gesture) and provide contrast orders of magnitude superior to E Ink.
I can set up a tablet's display so that its mimicking of black text on "white" paper is more realistic than that of a modern E Ink reader. That is if that is what is wanted, reading apps with their infinite control allows personal flexibility; for myself I prefer a slightly grey or "aged paper" tinted background.
So, for reasons such as their recognizing the above and not being exposed to received misinformation, I suspect those now being brought up with LCD and AMOLED devices as their everyday (every minute?
) companions are not going to be easily swayed into moving to inferior displays whose claimed advantages are meaningless to them (as they proved to be for me, me being much older but being similarly brought up with LCD displays on PDAs).