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Originally Posted by DNSB
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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I don't know, I don't know. For me, the direct perception has changed many of the prejudices I had about colour e-readers. Whether it is worth paying extra money is the first question I asked myself when I held it in my hand. And the more I use it, the more I am inclined to think that it is worth it, although it will depend a lot on what each user wants to get out of colour. For me, I certainly don't find colour a burden, but rather a benefit in certain situations. I was reading a comic last night and I didn't dislike the experience. I found it more pleasant than on a black and white screen with better resolution. But that's something that each user has to judge for themselves. And in the specific case of Android, colour is very good for applications that are not adapted to e-ink.
Does normal black-and-white reading penalise the colour screen? To a certain extent. Here, too, I was surprised by the direct view. I didn't notice a substantial difference. Of course if you are not going to use colour for anything, there is no point in a colour e-reader for normal reading. But if you are going to use it for other things, I think it is perfectly compatible.
These are reflections that I am making as I go along because I have not yet formed a definitive opinion. But I think that ruling out a colour e-reader without having tried it beforehand seems too hasty to me now.