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Originally Posted by dhbailey
And color eats up memory because then there's more information needed for each group of pixels which define each color dot. And then there's less memory for books.
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That is true, however it is not very much memory.
The number of pixels on the screen, multiplied by 3 or 4 bytes per pixel, is all that is needed for color.
For a 1280x1024 in black and white, you would use 1 byte per pixel = 1,310,720 bytes, or slightly more than 1 megabyte of RAM.
For the same screen in color, you would need (let's say) 4 times the bytes, thus 5,242,880 bytes, or just about 5MB of RAM.
Given that most readers have at least 128MB of RAM I think they would be willing to give up 4MB of RAM for decent color...