There have been some color eReaders (based on ‘Triton’), but there were not enough people buying them to sustain a market. And they were, frankly, crap. And lately we are seeing the same story repeat itself (CLEARink): like the previous concepts, they say they are targeting the ‘educational market’, which presumably represents a set of users (children) who can be forced to read on devices with bad color, in numbers to sustain a production run to turn a profit, and possibly iterate until they can get willing consumers to purchase a better product in the future. I am not optimistic that they can succeed in developing a product any of us will actually want to use.
There is an educational market, but it is dominated by the likes of Google, Microsoft and Apple:
https://www.statista.com/chart/13383...s-by-platform/
If Apple is struggling, and even Amazon a non-entity, what hope does CLEARink have of succeeding?
Some day, with advances in nanotechnology, we’ll have a perfectly paper like display with great color, but it is probably 10 years out: after all, physics does not preclude such a thing. In the meantime, I recommend an iPad mini if you can afford one, and Fire if you cannot.
What I ask of my Paperwhite is that they add ‘immersion reading’ to it, even if that only involves synchronizing the audiobook narration with page turns, and without highlighting phrases etc. Other than that, it is perfect at what it does.