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Originally Posted by Kris777
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The third picture confirms the technical specs for the two displays. The jetBook is just a hair higher contrast. I suspect it's because the blacks are a bit blacker, rather than a difference in the background colors.
On the LCD, black is (theoretically) dead black. Even if you had a near perfect white surface behind the display element of the jetBook LCD, you'd still have the dimming effect of two passes through the display element and polarizer. The best you can do is about a 50% reflectance. The eInk display suffers on both ends. Some of the media in the dark areas still shows up as white, and vice versa in the light areas. Perfect eInk, could approach absolute black on white, but it isn't there yet, and you get dark gray on light gray.
For the OP: A jetBook is a good choice. To meet your requirements, you might also want to consider adding a large-screen, general-purpose device like a PDA or UMPC to your stable. You wouldn't be able to use it in strong light. Since you have a Sony 500, you can just use that in strong light.
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What I am looking for is the device that is the most readable.
I also want to be able to import my own books to it from a html format, either natively or through an community-made tool. That's a key-feature.
It obviously must support a few fonts, and have the ability to enlarge the text size
Apart from that, I'd like a integrated light, but won't reject an otherwise suitable model because of it's lack.
I'm only interested in reading plain-text novels, so it doesn't have to support anything else.
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4-5" Backlit LCD displays are very readable, except in bright ambient light. PDAs and UMPCs can usually import many different formats and use a wide variety of fonts. The have an integrated light by definition.
Good luck,
Jack Tingle