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Originally Posted by Quoth
The 227 is certainly ok vs 300 for ebooks or a normal size font. It's noticeably poorer for scan PDFs of a magazine, or Letter/A4 pages with small text.
Also 200 dpi with 16 million shades (200 to 1000 grey levels) LCD is far better than 14 shade + black + white eink at 300 dpi for scanned PDFs. Only direct rendered epub is better at 300 dpi than 200 dpi LCD with a matt screen.
The Boox Note Air3 C can't actually do the same quality as a 300 dpi mono screen unless you dissaemble the light pipe layer and disolve off the coloured printed dots. It's impossible.
Also videos are STUPID to compare screens. You need decent stills in controlled light, png or tif files (not jpeg) and a decent screen with no reflections or glare.
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The problem with LCDs is that they're backlit, and they suck battery.
I really want eInk, because it's so much easier on the eye and has a battery life of weeks instead of hours.
There is a front lit LCD technology. But the videos I watched show the device has a really large bezel, and the battery life is 20 hours, instead of the usual 10 most tablets get you. It's better. But it's not really the same as an e-ink panel. Light still needs to travel through the panel and reflect back out. So, I don't think this will be any better for eye strain.
I don't know if we'll ever get a true multi-color e-ink display with decent contrast. I hope someone can crack it.