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Old 07-29-2023, 09:53 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by cellaris View Post
I sincerely believe that anyone who is truly interested in a colour e-reader (in my case it's pure whim) is not going to wait until 2035 to buy one, no matter how many limitations and deficiencies it may have at present (and no matter how high the price may seem). And, in my opinion, you would do well to buy it now, just like those who bought the Amazon Kindle in 2007 and did not wait for the Kobo Libra 2 (or the next future marvel).

That said, I think that all the options provided in previous posts (including the Onyx Boox Tab Mini C) seem to me to be adequate.
I would agree with much of what you are saying except that, IMNSHO, the value added by colour is not worth the price. The colour with a Kaleido 3 screen is not even at the level of comic books and the colour has 150DPI resolution with it's need for 4 pixels and a colour filter layer and the colour with a Gallery 3 screen while having a better colour gamut and 300DPI resolution needs 1500ms to refresh the screen for the best colour level. Add in the lower contrast of the colour display—the latest eInk B&W screens have a much whiter screen than the Kaleido with it's colour filter layers and a contrast ratio of ~10 or the Gallery 3 which needs to use all three colours for a "black" giving a contrast ratio of 14 (a 40% increase over the Kaleido 3 display).
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