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Originally Posted by ProDigit
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So a lot of people complain about eyestrain on LCD's just because they don't know how to adjust the screen to the right brightness!
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Same goes for E-ink. Reading your E-ink device actually hurts in full sunlight, and your eyes get damaged doing so!
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E-ink is about the perfect screen for reading in the shadows and inside under mild light (as well as Pixel Qi's technology).
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I don't mean to force my opinion on anyone and I'm willing to admit that it depends on the person how much does reading on an lcd bother him/her.
I'd just like to make sure that the contributors to this debate have spent equal amount of time reading on both lcd and eink displays and can make a comparison that's worth something.
I used to read on a transflective screen with a variety of different settings as to the backlight level and background and text color. Some might have worked better than others, but all in all, it was still worse experience than with eink.
But then there are other things that speak in favor of eink and which drove me away from lcd screens: lcds reflect the ambient light a great deal more than eink and usually (in my experience) you have to hold the device right before you at a 90 degrees angle, because if tilted the readability goes down fast. So you can't just put it horizontally in front of you on a table or on bed, always have to hold it in your hand at near 90 degrees angle to your eye axis.
And this is not a matter of personal taste, you all must have noticed this.
Last thing -- reading eink outside on direct sunlight is better than both reading an lcd and reading a pbook, because the contrast of eink is lower, so you still spare your eyes more compared to reading from paper.