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Originally Posted by Riocaz
You tell me where I can get an LCD device which is as readable as e-ink in bright sunshine and that doesn't give me migraines when reading on the tube...
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Any transflective screen will do that. And I do speak out of experience.
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Originally Posted by Nate the great
P.S. I didn't address this before, but color images in ebooks are important. That's why they're working on color epaper. Also, a faster refresh rate is useful for certain reading styles, basically when you flip through a book to find a certain part. Only reason I mentioned them is that epaper can't do it.
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The only reason I didn't go to the next shop to buy an e-ink device as soon as I knew they were available (beside that Sony one way back when) is because of the refresh rate, actually. I'd seen a lot of youtube movies about it and, if I'm truthful, I'm still afraid it's just too long for my kind of reading.
For me, both have advantages and both have disadvantages. In the end,
you need to decide whether the advantages are worth more than the disadvantages.
So, for me, the advantages of an e-ink screen would be the weight, thickness and batterylife. The disadvantages would be the lack of a touch-screen (at least on some models), colour and the lack of backlight. LCD is generally heavier, thicker and has a shorter battery life, but you'll get a colour screen, backlight and touchscreen in return.
You never use touchscreen? Then that's no advantage of LCD. You always read in daylight? Then a backlight would be useless. But you always read cartoons? Colour would be much more better than 4 or 8 grey scales. You generally read in bed and don't want to disturb your partner? Backlight is handy! etc, etc.
What I'd love to see people doing is stating why they don't like a device without just saying it sucks. A device isn't useless for a task because it misses one thing you might find important in such a device. You can mention that you find that thing missing and thus might be less useful for you.
Example:
I read 15 hours a day (no work, no kids, no husband), so I need a battery life that fits with that. And that SmartQ doesn't. The Sony has a battery life of 24 hours, so I can read a full day (and charge while asleep).
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I read 2 hours a day, mostly at night. I don't want to wake my partner, so I'd rather have a backlight than a long battery life. And I don't want to mess around with those stupid reading lights as they always break or the battery is empty just when I need them. So, I'd rather take that SmartQ as that fits my reading style better. And who cares the battery is empty after 3 hours, I'll charge it when I'm sleeping anyway.
*above statements are completely made up and don't represent what I think!*