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Quoth · 09-15-2021, 07:47 AM

It's certainly true that coffee table books and many non-fiction titles don't work as ebooks. Even on a 24" 2K IPS colour screen. I have two such screens on my desk and I don't read long content on them. I even convert any long web content to epub via LO Writer if the images are not so important and fix tables and image size by using an approximately 6" 4:3 page.

I've also proof read and annotated over 20 revisions of over 30 novels as ebooks since about 2012, saving a fortune in ink/toner and paper. Saving environment too. But I'd want POD paper for proper proofing of any coffee table or larger format fixed layout text.

But novels have been working well as ebooks before eink existed, they became popular about 2000 on PDAs, but have existed since the mid 1970s read on CRTs. Eink has improved a lot from 2004 release to about 2014 when improvements slowed down.

He's thinking of a different kind of content to novels. He's also nearly 10 years out of date on screen sizes and quality.

I guess he has to write about something and this ill-informed rant will get clicks and ad views on The Atlantic. Ironically a screen read magazine.

09-15-2021, 07:47 AM	#11
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,300 Karma: 105299897 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	It's certainly true that coffee table books and many non-fiction titles don't work as ebooks. Even on a 24" 2K IPS colour screen. I have two such screens on my desk and I don't read long content on them. I even convert any long web content to epub via LO Writer if the images are not so important and fix tables and image size by using an approximately 6" 4:3 page. I've also proof read and annotated over 20 revisions of over 30 novels as ebooks since about 2012, saving a fortune in ink/toner and paper. Saving environment too. But I'd want POD paper for proper proofing of any coffee table or larger format fixed layout text. But novels have been working well as ebooks before eink existed, they became popular about 2000 on PDAs, but have existed since the mid 1970s read on CRTs. Eink has improved a lot from 2004 release to about 2014 when improvements slowed down. He's thinking of a different kind of content to novels. He's also nearly 10 years out of date on screen sizes and quality. I guess he has to write about something and this ill-informed rant will get clicks and ad views on The Atlantic. Ironically a screen read magazine. Last edited by Quoth; 09-15-2021 at 07:53 AM.