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Originally Posted by Bushcat
Naw. It's refreshing in the direction of the shortest axis to try and keep the refresh time down. Most text stopped being printed right to left in the late 1950's. Text is usually left to right, or top to bottom. Pages stilll mostly turn left to right, though.
It actually does 3 refreshes: first 64 colors, then 4096, then the full 200k. The screen's readable after the first refresh. The Bridgestone display is way, way better as a user experience, incidentally. Saw my first one yesterday.
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I am not talking about text being printed from right to left, I am saying that the text is read from right to left. I own many Japanese novels and they all are read from right to left.
Many technical books are often printed horizontally and read from left to right like English books but all the Japanese novels I've seen have been printed so the characters are lined vertically going top to bottom and reading the lines from right to left.
Since Japanese people would likely be using the device to read novels, reading from right to left, it would make sense to have the next line they read to be refreshed first.