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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I suspect it mostly concerns people who only see e-ink readers in passing, and they wonder if they could get used to it.
I think I recall one person here at MR say that the black flash annoyed them so much they returned their reader, but other than that, almost everyone says, "I noticed it for two minutes when I first got the device, and never thought about it again."
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My thoughts, exactly.
These devices shine when it comes to long term use, but new adopters rarely have a luxury of long evaluation before the purchase. Still, the (statistically frequently) faulted assumption that page turn speed is important does hurt the adoption of the technology.
I agree with everybody else, the refresh rate speed has no impact on the primary function of the device, it is no issue for reading.
Where it
does hurt, IMHO, is part of the software that falls into the maintenance and management of the book collection. Since it takes too long to page through long lists, it is impractical to store large collections on SD card. Another relevant application is dictionary lookup (narrow the search as letters of the word are typed, or navigation of nrapallo's Webster dictionary).