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Originally Posted by Andybaby
Huh?
Of course they are both Eink, but they are totally different.
The substrate is what holds the circuitry and all the other stuff that makes it work. they are totally different screens even if they are both Eink.
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I think the main difference of the screens in the Esquire magazine is that they don't have nearly as sophisticated circuitry "and all the other stuff" in them as regular reader devices do. That magazine screen cannot be addressed and drawn in anything close to the resolution or pixels that is required for text. The only thing you can really do with them is cause a large block region to blink. They don't have the underlying circuitry necessary to actually draw dynamic text.
Other than that, I think we're saying the same thing. The eInk itself is the same, the underlying substrate is different. But you can't just take the screen from the magazine and put it on a kindle. The reason the substrate on the magazine works like it does also makes it totally unsuitable for text, or any fine detail. The technology in how that magazine version of eInk works was discussed in quite some detail when it first came out. The gist of it is that the image/text on the magazine page is fixed. The only effect the eInk is providing is to make it flash/blink, and it is only capable of addressing a large block.