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I think those transreflective displays are like those on Garmin (and other) GPS/outdoor devices are not bad, but they sure seem to be power hungry and need much brighter ambient light to view than e-Ink, as well as having rather low resolution. (I would have thought that you'd need to have low resolution for transreflectives to work well, to allow light into the display to make it easy to read.)
I find the reading experience of eInk actually much better than books. I read fairly fast, and skim a lot of non fiction books, manuals and papers, and it is much quicker and easier to read like this (for me) with an eInk reader, especially if it's a big eInk screen. Wordsearch is really useful and you can throw in multiple bookmarks to navigate. The only reason I have the smaller eInk devices is portability. The other thing that is a massive win with eBooks is the huge availabilty of a virtually unlimited number of books (or magazines) you can borrow at a moment's notice from public libraries, for free, and they haven't got pages missing or been underlined to death. With an Onyx device you can use pretty much any e-library source with no problem, cucurrently. And, you can readilly read several books all at once without losing your place.. something I can enjoy with an eReader but not so easily with a normal stack of paper!
The real question is how to prevent the rest of my household from accumulating large piles of dead wood and get them reading electronically. Any suggestions welcome!?
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