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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Ah, but there is the difference: here you say You have problems with it. Earlier, you said that it hurts "our" eyes. Which implies mine too.
What I'm trying to say: I couldn't care less if you preferred e-ink over LCD (backlit or not). But, saying something a device is not meant for e-reading because it has a LCD screen is not a founded argument. It only means it's not the best device for all people, as some people may get eye troubles.
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Reading in bright sunlight gives me a major headache. I'd never do it even with paper-books or magazines (I listen to audiobooks instead in that situation). I suppose I tend towards the comment by Sweatpea, that taking a specific opinion or even an isolated fact, and then extrapolating it to "everyone" or "in all cases" is what I tend to see when people discuss LCDs in this forum - and not much of it for eink. For example, I could say that because of the slow refresh rate of eink and the page-flashing, that any and all current eink devices are "just not ready for prime time yet." However, I have read that many people do not have problems with this, so it is my opinion and I generally do not express it, or at least try not to condemn all eink devices on that basis.
Perhaps, when people spend apx 300$ on a single-purpose device, and someone calls "their baby ugly" it raises the fighting spirit (if only to defend ones purchasing integrity
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I don't think this is a big deal though. Intelligent people can see through any bias and find out the actual facts in the forum, and most posters seem to try to be even-handed. You quickly learn which posters fall into which type of group.