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Originally Posted by AnotherCat

I started way back with PDAs which were limited by display size (but color). Moved to E Ink for bigger display size for a few years but got sick of the poor display technology and moved to the tablets that had come along in the meantime.

Regarding readability of text size one can read considerably smaller text on LCD and OLED displays compared to E Ink because of their very much higher contrast ratios. Typically a LCD phone or tablet display will have a contrast ratio around 100 to 200 times that of E Ink displays and the contrast ratio of AMOLED, for example, is effectively infinite. Contrast ratio is similar to dynamic range, so the ability to differentiate, for example, black against a white background. This is one reason why, for example, E Ink is poor at grey scale too and, as can be seen from many posts in these forums, also why people find fonts in ebooks often not dense or distinctive enough (that is a problem I have observed with E Ink but have never found it so with LCD or AMOLED).

Personally, for reading, I see a very noticeable increase in readability of text for LCD over E Ink, but not so much as between LCD and AMOLED - I have never been able to justify the increased cost of AMOLED just for reading at night.

For high quality video (getting off topic, and something E Ink is incompetent at, but to demonstrate an effect of increased contrast ratio) AMOLED is noticeably better than LCD because of AMOLED's higher contrast ratio. Moving that into TVs, LCD TVs have high contrast ratios (typically higher than a LCD computer monitor, so that is one reason why movies look better on a TV than a monitor) and xOLEDs much higher again and are noticeably better than LCD.

I use 1440x2450or something but current AMOLED displays have worse subpixels and less resolution than LCDs. They have about 66% of the pixels a real LCD has with RGB, it uses pentile. The only reason I use it is to dim the display, when microLCD comes out, I won't care anymore. https://www.oled-info.com/pentile I hate how the screen flashes too. You can get a really cheap used phone that has a blacklisted sim or something with OLED if you feel that LCD is that much more expensive.

Originally Posted by 4691mls

I could read comfortably the text shown on the e-ink screen on the right in the OP's photo but the text on the device on the left looks microscopic. ��

It distance from you. I can still read it, but I hold it closer to my face.

Originally Posted by gmw

There was a time when I set my screens to tiny fonts, and I coded using dense code structure with minimal white space ... but those days are long gone. Now, give me a 7" to 8" e-ink screen for reading (and a 27" screen for coding! ) with plenty of adjustment so I can increase line spacing where needed (and I finally code according to standard rather than the tastes of a young man with excellent vision ... I do miss having excellent vision ).

Consider getting laser surgery!!

Originally Posted by rcentros

I totally missed the image...

The iPhone SE example lost quotation indents and spaces. The eInk device looks more like a paper book. There's no question which I would rather use (especially at the tiny font setting on the iPhone).

That isn't an iPhone, not sure what makes it look like an iPhone, its missing the home button and its got a bottom speaker grill and AMOLED. You hold it closer to your face, its certainly not as easy to see in that picture because they are both equally far away.

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Most people here read their books on whichever device they want, no matter where they were purchased. For my part, I could not imagine anything worse than having my books spread over different ecosystems. I would have no idea what I have and what I've read. All my books are in Calibre and I read them on my Kindles or on my Nook, just how the mood takes me. Calibre and the DRM plugins take care of any copy protection measures, if the book has them.

I go for DRM free, the DRM books I have just stay stuck on my kindle and aren't as portable.

Originally Posted by Tomk2

Funny,I just switched to the Kindle Paperwhite! As a previous nook user, the Kindle devices and the Kindle ecosystem are just nicer. Yeah, I miss page turn buttons, but syncing my borrowed books across multiple devices makes up for that, and I can get the buttons back if I upgrade. I read threads like this because I wonder what other revelations and new opportunities await, before I have too many ebooks on one particular system. Then again, perhaps I will just end up with multiple devices, and my collection spread among them.

You can do the same with dropbox if you use moonreader+. or just use the kindle app on multiple devices. Even syncs pages for you with dropbox.

Originally Posted by najgori

going to kobo from kindle, because of jeff bezos politics which should not be discussed here.

off topic I wish I liked the kindle more, cause of blue origin, not politics related but did you see what hes doing? Hes gonna build a moon base in our lifetimes!!!

Originally Posted by crane3

My 1st 'real' ereader was the Nook 1st edition which I got before the xmas; sortof used a palm tunsten II for reference for classes. Have done tablets ever since including a Fire HDX 8.9, still using it on occasion.
For some dumb reason got an kobo aura le which is mistake; bought an oasis 2 a couple of months back because to the hardware buttons; hw buttons are nice for us who dip into potato chips, popcorn, cookies, etc while reading.

For me, reading is reading but a huge factor is how a tablet/ereader manages the books; kobo is very lacking. The ipad sucks for reading as no decent reading app & inability to have the background/foreground behave decently, e.g. searing one's eyesight.

Haven't done B&N ever since they stopped me downloading my books; do not want to go thru any gyrations to get what I bought.

Calibre is a lifesaver in not being locked into any company; tried to donate again but I don't do paypal.

Android does much better with customization. Do you use night mode on your iPad? It helps a lot. I would use a tablet to read, but a phone has higher resolution, is cheaper, and has much better specs, you can find a way cheaper phone with great specs rather than a tablet.


To no one in particular:

Since I read more academy texts (non pleasure reading) pdfs work much better for me, I can search up concepts in the paper or book I am reading with google or something (browser is terrible on amazon), and of course I can use different apps so I never feel as crippled as I felt on kindle even with a jailbreak. I can't believe that amazon imprisoned me for so long, I feel like I was fooled into believing that a kindle was the best way to read. It is not for me, I will never use eink anymore, clearink maybe but no more eink, I gave away my kindle pw because I no longer use it. Even that future is dubious since microLED should beat AMOLED, my favorite currently. I was worried about not being able to read in the sun, but I don't read in the sun, I am always having non reading fun in the sun, I never read in the sun.