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Originally Posted by kandwo
Why not use 300PPI screens since there is a clear difference (whether or not YOU, personally, can see it or not)? Why not use more recent hardware, so that the device doesn’t feel sluggish to use?
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I’d guess that in this case, it’s cost and availability.
It doesn’t seem to me that PocketBook generally gets the newest and best screens from E Ink (they don’t have any Carta 1300 devices), and since they don’t have a global bookstore like Amazon or Kobo, can’t really offset device costs by hoping people buy books from them, so they seem to aim to make decent-ish “budget” devices, at least in some ranges.
I like buttons, so I wouldn’t get the Inkpad One (it also seems a bit large for just reading regular books to me), but it’s priced quite competitively for a device that large (around 100 euros cheaper than Kobo Elipsa 2E, which is probably its most direct competitor, and ~200 euros below Kindle Scribe), so I’m guessing it may be attractive enough for people who want a larger screen but can’t afford or don’t want/need a Scribe or a Supernote or ReMarkable or a larger Boox or some other Android - it’s probably “sharp enough” for both PDFs and manga, and sharp enough for people who are shopping for a larger screen because they need to use large fonts.