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Originally Posted by Quoth
For novels you are sacrificing quality for 4 hours of reading a novel to see the cover briefly in colour.
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Fortunately I am a slow reader, I can spend 12 hours reading a book. This allows me to enjoy the colour I apply to novels for longer. A double pleasure: the pleasure of leisurely reading and the aesthetic pleasure. A monochrome e-reader, no matter how good its screen, does not give me the pleasure I get from colour.
(I have to look up one of the most passionate pleas made some time ago by one of the developers of KOReader in favour of monochromatism in response to a user's request for the inclusion of colour underlines in KOReader. He was saying that if we started to include colour in the texts, people would eventually want more: headers and footers in colour, chapter titles in colour, notes in colour, quotes in colour... How right he was! Although he bitterly regretted it because he considered it a degradation of reading. I think that comment led me to abandon KOReader and look elsewhere for solutions to my aesthetic concerns. And I don't regret it. Everyone must find their own way in the world of e-readers regardless of what others think.).