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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I've found it impossible to go back to a 6'' screen. Just don't want to read on it. OTOH I have no problems with switching between 7'' and 8''.
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I prefer an 8″, but the 7″ is usable. A smaller size is handy when travelling without a bag or big pocket. My hooded jacket can take the 8″ Sage.
Considering what I've seen of the last 12 years, and especially the last 10 on 300 dpi, I think any B&W eink screen improvement will be marginal, unless a new technology is discovered.
Similarly Kaleido is at the limit of the eink technology. The ACeP is different technology but would need a massive change to be fast enough for an ereader. So a much better mono or colour eink ereader needs technology not yet invented, meanwhile there are larger LCDs with decent enough battery life (read 12 hours) and no-glare/no-shine matt screens.
E ink Corp (and to an extent Amazon and Qualcomm) have pretty much ensured there are unlikely to be any bistable eink screen developments outside of E Ink Corp, so don't hold your breath for anything much better than we have. The mono trans-reflective LCD with amber LED back light is an old idea and inferior to real eink for mono novels and inferior to matt screen colour LCD for everything else. The QLED is actually LCD that only needs about 1/6th of the backlight power for the same brightness. It's got better colour too. Samsung and TCL already sell TVs using them, as do others using Samsung and TCL panels.
The current mono eink from E Ink Corp at 300 dpi seems about as good as you'll get to read novels. The 9.7″ and larger are really too big for simply reading novels. Maybe there is need for an 8.5″ or 9″ 300 dpi B&W eink. Having (or had) a 9.7″ and two 10.3″ eink, I find they are far too big for novels and can't at all compete with the TCL Nxtpaper 11 (a Nxtpaper 2.0 screen and there is a Nxtpaper 3.0 screen). I may get a Nxtpaper 14 pro for PDFs and illustrated picture books/comics/graphic novels, but I'll stick with the 8″ Sage as biggest for novels. I might consider an 8.5″ if not stupidly full of magnets like the Sage is.