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Originally Posted by 4691mls
To my eyes, an LCD screen doesn't appear solid. The text does but the white background doesn't. It's hard to describe. It's sort of like the text is floating in front of a light. E-ink does appear solid as long as there is some ambient light. The only time e-ink doesn't appear solid to me is if I use it in a dark room with the ereader's light on.
I tried showing this to a family member who happily reads on LCD - I held my e-ink device next to her tablet but she didn't see a difference.
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This got me wondering about those pictures that have 3-D optical illusions in them. Stereograms, I think they were called? Anyway. Invariably, people looking at them could always be lumped into three groups: Those who could see the optical illusion right away, those who never could see it, and those who could work at it for a while and eventually see it.
I was always in the last group. I'm curious what group those who describe the background of an LCD screen as not appearing solid might be in.
I'm obviously ignoring the 4th group of people who tended to lie about being able to see the optical illusion and then walked away.
