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Old 06-08-2009, 03:48 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by Ham88 View Post
Seeing as this has become part of this thread I don't like reading on a back lit lcd, such as my laptop, but I love reading on the lcd on my jetbook. So I think the whole eyestrain thing is just the backlight, but I'm no expert
I agree. The LCD on the jetbook is a reflective display and it reads just like e-ink. I used to have a "non-backlit" monochrome Palm PDA and it was a very nice ebook reader.

And one more thing I like about an e-ink device is the battery life. I personally don't mind the relatively slower refresh speed of the e-ink display since it's just a very brief blink, and I turn pages just every 30 seconds or so. And most of the page-turn waiting is due to the slow CPU of the reader rather than the display itself.

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