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Originally Posted by galax
Also 30 hours of battery is precarious, I doubt any that any display that relies with light to show colors will ever beat eink.
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No, it's not. That's about 4 days of reading or more for most people. Charging is 45 to 50 minutes. Some eink ereaders are no better, and at typical ideal backlight levels indoors even more that 30 hours reading is possible.
OLED won't do direct sunlight well on many panels. However LCD and some OLED matt screens can do direct sunlight. The QLED needs 1/6th power for normal ambient and can do x6 brightness at same power as LCD.
Colour eink is only 135 dpi to 150 dpi and doesn't perform as well as mono eink in direct sunlight.
You'll get more listening time on most phones for Audio books than any Eink Reader, as they have small batteries and rely on partial sleep when you are reading a page.
Multi-media Interactive epub3 titles won't work either at all, or not properly on eink.
Both my OLED 6.3″ matt screen and LCD 10.9″ matt screen beat mono eink (even in mono content) if the eink front light is on. The 300 dpi mono eink only just beats rhe matt screens when ambient light allows zero front light.
I've loads of Eink from 4.7″ to 10.3". I've had loads of brands too. I read a huge amount. I do mostly read epub2 novels on an 8″ Sage, but only if ambient light allows me to have the front light off. Also it's an ideal size for me.
Colour eink is a niche for comics and doomed. Mono eink will survive as a niche.