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Originally Posted by rcentros
I've read that also. Probably depends on your eyes. Mine definitely prefer E-Ink screens over LCD ones for extended reading.
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I certainly agree for any of my portable LCD screens. I showed the P47L elongated shiny screen 4.7" eink to a few people and all thought it preferable to reading on a phone. A phone is rarely at the correct brightness for ambient. The
P47L has no frontlight or touch (no annotation or dictionary or WiFi so touch isn't needed except for internal links, which sort of work with keyboard nav).
As I mentioned, comfort isn't the same as harm. Obviously screen shininess is only one aspect of comfort (which can cause slight temporary harm of eye strain due to refocussing and then a headache). My desktop LCD is only as comfortable as paper or eink because: it's not portable, there is no daylight, room lighting and screen brightness (8%) and contrast carefully adjusted, it's got no colour or brightness shift as you move your head (more advanced than IPS), and decent DPI (4K on 23″). I'd not read a novel on any of my phones or tablets, but I could on my desktop screen, except the chair is optimised for typing, not reclining with a book; I'd rarely sit long in an ordinary office chair or dining table chair to read.