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Originally Posted by HarryT
The contrast ratio of eInk screens has dramatically improved over the years as screens have gone from Vizplex to Pearl to Carta. The current generation of eInk screens, Carta, has a contast ratio on a par with that of a paperback book (and that's before front-lighting makes it drastically better).
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I agree. The contrast ratio of my Paperwhite with it's front light is a lot better than that on most paper books. I read used paperbacks most of my early life and it's certainly better than those.
As for color, I read novels and most have no internal images and those few that do are nearly always black and white. For magazines there are tablets. Adding color to e-ink will certainly lower it's contrast ratio, at least for a few years, and I'd hate to see that.
And I don't agree that seeing the cover is part of the reading experience. Reading is about words. Covers are a marketing thing. Would you ask that TV manufacturers produce a set that's optimized for commercials?
There's the reading experience and there's the ereader experience and those are different things although they do overlap.
Barry