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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
I don't think a matte LCD is a good alternative to eInk to recommend it to someone looking for eInk. It's just not the same unless they only use it in darkish areas with a front light.
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i've 4 different Nxtpaper based devices. It's not ordinary.
I have/had loads of eink devices. Vizplex, Pearl, Carta HD, Carta1200, from 4.7″ enlongated to 5″ to 10.3″ 4:3 approx, inc the 9.7 DXG.
Only the Carta models with front light off in decent ambient light are better than a properly adjusted Nxtpaper 2.0 and Nxtpaper 3.0.
It's not "just a matt" screen. Though the various epaper gimicks make it poorer. It's best with sRGB, suitable theme (defaults are stupid), adjusted colour temperature and manual brightness (18 to 22%). Maybe auto outdoors.
If it was for reflowable novels I'd agree eink is the choice, but having struggled with PDF on eink for over 10 years and seriously considered the Sony & Fujitsu models bigger than 13″, the Nxtpaper 14 (standard version) is the only portable solution that works.
I've had numerous 10" Android and also a big Win10 tablet like a Surface (worked better with Debian) and they are/were all abysmal compared to the reMarkable for PDFs, which is poorer than the Elipsa (same internal eink screen on version 1 & 2 of both makes). Both of those are rubbish for PDFs campared to the Nxtpaper 14.