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Originally Posted by Barty
Wow this has me intrigued. You say eink is superior for novels. Is that because of text clarity, or other factors?
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Only if the frontlight is off.
A 6" to 8" mono eink isn't going to manage tables, big images, comics, graphic novels, Print replica, PDF, interactive, animation, video etc. So works best for novels.
When the front light is on, it's more like OLED or LCD because the brightness is fixed and the colour temperature doesn't match ambient. Eink is also poor to abysmal for active stylus note taking.
The 11" Nxtpaper can be like paper to use if you switch off automatic, enable sRGB, disable all the reading / paper simulation features and manually set the brightness and colour balance to be similar to regular paper (not super bright copier, or coated inkjet, photo paper). Then it's like eink with a frontlight on, because the colour temperature and brightness is fixed as you move in chair, room or bed. With enough ambient light to read printed paper you can have front light off on any Carta mono eink, and Pearl with no overlays (IR touch, no frontlight layer) and like paper the brightness and colour temperature perfectly tracks/matches ambient. No-one has ever managed this for frontlights, OLED or LCD, in fact the automatic settings only work reasonably outdoors.