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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
Which is why everyone reads books on LCD, and no one buys e-ink devices.
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I doubt it. I think it is just because they can. They hear about ebooks, they have a tablet or a larger phone, they read. It works for them and they keep using the tablet. Others will look at the costs of the dedicated ereader and a general purpose tablet and decide to buy one device that does everything. This delayed me buying an ereader for a while. Luckily someone I worked with bought a cheap tablet and that demonstrated that, for me at least, the ereader was worth it. To get a tablet that satisfied me, I would have had to spend a lot more money.
My assumption has been that when e-ink ereaders came out, they were better/easier on the eyes than an LCD tablet. But, LCD screens have come a long way since then. I would expect that current LCD screens, at least on mid- to high-end tablets, to not suffer from the same problems as the older screens. Whether there are other issues that give other reasons for not using them, I do not know.