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Originally Posted by honico
The e-Ink isn't going to make a better reader; it can't do backlights and res. is pretty low.
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Um, honico? I'm not trying to be a jerk,
really I'm not, but have you seen an e-ink screen? I mean with your own eyes, not a picture (which just can't capture it).
It's about 170 PPI, the pixels are each about 153
microns in size. VGA resolution in a 6" diagonal space (or SVGA in an 8") isn't really all
that low rez. The display looks like
laser printing.
And the back-light thing is kind of a red herring. E-ink is both opaque (like paper) and reflective, (also like paper). It's whole point is that you
don't need a backlight to see it, so you're not staring into a light source to read. All of that makes me happy.
General consensus amongst those who already have e-ink readers seems to be that the lack of a backlight is a trade that they're jubilant to make to get the quality of the e-ink display.
You're correct about all the books that are available, what's not available, which we're feeling the absence of, is newly realeased material.
What we're hoping is that the much more usable displays, with much better battery life, will break through to more of the reading public, and in turn increase the demand for e-texts, so that more first run material becomes available.
Will it work? Dunno. But the current confluence of circumstances and technology is quite encouraging, certainly more promising than it's been in a long time.
