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Originally Posted by fgdas
Frontlight = glass. That's why Mimas, Note pro and plus are so heavy compared to Sony's DPT-CP1 which is only 240g with no glass.
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Mimas also is covered with glass? Are you sure? I never saw it mentioned anywhere. I thought that the light distributing layer was also flexible.
I always hated frontlight - the stupidity of the idea. The use of e-ink so that the page would not glow and then adding the light so that it would.
Plus, reduced contrast and added optical distortions. But adding unnecessary glass makes me really mad.
Question - is it possible then to tear that glass away? To smash it perhaps and to remove it piece-by-piece?
And it is white - another insult. I am sure, the screen is nowhere as white as the frame. So repainting is a must.
Smashing and repainting.
I have OB Note - if only it had a card slot and the buttons. Other than that - I love it. Including its Neo 2 reader. I found nothing better for pdfs, and it is also pretty good for epubs and fb2s - although I use Cool Reader too.
It seems that it is out of production now? So no Onyx Boox without the glass either. But it is still possible to get it, although not in ereader.store where I bought mine.
My perfect e-reader would be a black Mimas without frontlight and without glass but with Onyx Boox Neo 2 reader software - not sure if it can be found separately.