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Originally Posted by theducks
I am not sure what your issue is. Even my ancient Astak (vizplex) did page turns about as fast as I could flip a page on my paperback. True, it did not have opposing pages, so there were double the page 'turns'. But they were brisk. (Note: I still don't use animated 'flips'. on any device that supports those)
Was you content image or chart heavy? That would slow things down.
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I am not comparing it to a paperback, its compared to what I usually use for reading, LCDs with nearly instant changes. It makes it impossible to search or do anything aside from reading, and it detracts from my reading experience. Lets say you found a word you wanted to look up. Before you would dig out a dictionary and flip through pages. Now you can highlight the eink reader, probably fumbling and then selecting it finally, searching on the device itself and finding it after a bit of the screen being slow and flashing. If your expectations went from a book its great. Instead on a fast device with fast screen, you can do all that, and find more information on google or wikipedia with updated information. And forget about browsing on it, I would have loved to have an eink internet device, but its awful for that purpose.
Reading has become more than just reading text unless you are doing pleasure reading. Reading anything technical is frustrating.