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Old 04-12-2024, 01:13 PM   #105
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Originally Posted by dem1980fr View Post
I hope we could have soon pictures side by side of ebooks from Libra Old/BW and from Libra Color/Colour to see if black and white pages are blurry as previews said.
Colors are bonus but black and white have to be at least at the same quality.
They aren't, at least from the pictures I've seen. It's a trade-off. Some will be happy with the trade, some will not.

I do find it rather funny that, since I started e-reading back in 2011, the cry has always been "screens are too dark, not enough contrast" and now that color e-ink is here, folks are practically stampeding with their wallets towards dark screens with less contrast.

But I also understand it.

I put my 2012 Sony T2 up against my 2021 Sage in a room lit with only ambient lighting, nothing direct, and honestly, the differences between my old T2, a Kobo Aura HD, a Kindle Oasis 2, and the 2021 Sage were pretty negligible if all front lighting was off. TEN+ years of e-ink development and without front light, a casual glance and these 4 reader screens looked virtually identical.

Of course on close inspection, you'd see the contrast and sharpness gains. But for most folks, I suspect it doesn't seem like much of a compromise to turn a front light up further.

I'm not against having a color reader, but it would NEVER be my main reader with the current technology. I don't think my old eyes would care for the trade-off.
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