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Originally Posted by DNSB
Sorry to burst your bubble but a Kaleido screen is simply a coloured filter layer in front of a Carta display. If you pull the CFA layer out of the sandwich in the attached image, you have a B&W Carta display.
The real next generation of display is eInk's Gallery/ACeP screens. These have 4 different colours of particle in a microcup and by positioning the particles, you can generate more colours than Kaleido 3 is capable of and without reducing the display resolution. The problem is that positioning those particles is a slow process. It can take up to 1.5 seconds to rewrite a colour page in quality mode.
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Yes, kaleido is never going to be as good as mono Carta and may not get much better. It's not even new technology.
Also ACeP while much better colour may never be fast enough for an ereader and might not ever be as good in ambient light as any Carta version for mono.
We may be close to "peak" eink. Carta 1200 is in reality little better than Carta. They seem to have maxed out at 300 dpi years ago and took them a long while to get from 227 dpi to 300 dpi for 10.x″ panels.
I like my Sage and Libra. I like the mono eink for a novel, but for anything else the Nxtpaper is far better. I've bought two 10.3″ ereaders and they are pointless. Nearly as pointless as my 9.7″ 150 dpi DXG (though at least it was a clearance sale).
I'll read novels mostly on the Sage. I can't see me ever using the 10.3″ eink models or buying a larger eink, or a colour eink. I nearly bought a Scribe and feel it was a narrow escape. Years before the 10.3″ 227 dpi models I almost bought a big Sony DPT. But they are too heavy, too slow, too walled and low resolution.
I'll likely get a Nxtpaper 14 or 14 pro for bigger stuff instead of 16″ 2560x1440 laptop screen.