Quote:
Originally Posted by Pajamaman
I find it hard to believe that aprox 50% of poll responders are unable to read books comfortably on LCD because they cannot adequately adjust the brightness. Maybe that's not what you meant?
|
I find it perfectly believable that a very large portion of approximately 50% of poll responders have failed to adjust the brightness to a level to read comfortably. Some being due to device inadequacies and some being due to their own. I also believe a not tiny portion responded in a way that simply confirmed a bill of goods they were sold with early eink advertising and have never even tried reading a novel on something other than a phone or an eink device in a long time.
I do believe there are people who have conditions/sensitivities that can be adversely affected by LCD screens/monitors, but I also think those numbers are smaller in the wider world than what Mobile Read polls often tend to indicate.
That's not to say I think more people should admit to being able read books just fine on LCD devices (let alone that they should indeed read on LCD at all). It only means I'm tired of the combination of pseudo-science and advertising that gets trotted out as some sort of incontrovertible evidence that Eink is objectively "better" for Reading™.