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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. [...]
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I used to get this effect with my first e-reader - a Sony with no front light. When reading in good ambient light it was okay, but anything less than good light had the text floating in nothing and my eyes would quickly get tired. (
I even experimented with textured page backgrounds, but the screen quality really wasn't up to doing that very effectively.) This was the main reason it did not get used consistently - back then I still did a lot of reading from paper books.
I don't seem to get the effect on LCD screens (except when I think about it, like now
). I can and do spend hours staring at my desktop LCD screens, but I find it is a different sort of staring to letting myself get immersed in a narrative text. My desktop screens are visually very busy. While considering this thread I've wondered if my problem with reading on LCDs is one of association - that I associate LCD with busy interfaces and work and so don't relax into it.
As for stereograms ... sometimes they work for me, sometimes not. Trying to force it I find becomes an exercise in frustration.