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Originally Posted by Sirtel
If nonfiction is your thing, there certainly are plenty of ebooks with color images/diagrams/charts and so on. But if you like to read mostly fiction, then no. 99% of my ebooks don't have any color images. I tend to read nonfiction not as books, but as web articles on my tablet/phone/computer. On my eink devices I read novels, almost exclusively.
Personally I couldn't care less if my fiction has any color or not. Nonfiction is another matter, but I don't like to read it on eink, and not just for the lack of color - I like to enlarge images, hop between different hyperlinks etc when reading nonfiction, and this is much faster and more convenient on a tablet or a computer.
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I hear you. I read most books on my kindle matcha. I use my iPad for magazines and web browsing, but I do prefer to look at my color books on my Kobo. I have some very close-up reading glasses for it which work great to read the small text on some of the factual books. I like very much the watercolor effect on the images, which is obviously a personal preference. I use my Scribe for textbooks and doing puzzles.
So I am not a 'one device to rule them all' kind of person.
There often seems to be an assumption (not addressing you specifically now Sirtel) that we use one device all the time and that that one device should be perfect at everything, and if we want to read color books, this must mean we do not ever read standard ebooks (meaning fiction and factual, all books basically). There also seems to be an assumption that if we have a color ereader, we do not have an iPad, which is very peculiar to me, but I appreciate I am a privileged person, lucky enough to have a wide variety of devices to read on. I like all my devices and do not like the tendency of humans to split into factions - such as here, where there are bitter statements about color eink. I mean, what a thing to get wound up about - other people liking color eink?
Disclaimer: I have always, always used dashes in my writing, and their presence does not indicate ChatGPT.
