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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't think it's unreasonable to say that this is a viewpoint that many will strongly disagree with  . To my mind, the current generation of eInk screens are just as readable as a typical newspaper or paperback book, although not up to the standard of high-quality hardbacks.
Of course, this is very much a matter of individual perspective, and undoubtedly different people will feel differently about it. |
If you read with usable fonts at usable sizes with usable languages, it's passable. It gets close to newsprint in global contrast but with its rubbish resolution and hinting, it can't resolve clean lines and has terrible local contrast. This is
especially irritating with complex characters in Chinese. A Chinese newspaper resolves fine on cheap newsprint, but the same size text is pretty much unreadable on an e-reader device. When it is readable, it's extremely ugly. Perhaps if I could disable hinting, it'd be more usable.
Latin languages aren't so bad, but still aren't very pleasant, and most nice looking typefaces with attractive serifs look wretched on e-ink, particularly at small sizes. Gotta use pudgy or squared ones.
For the most part, I can only use my reader with English, and it's tolerable at times, but far from good if what a person wants is high contrast. Like I said though...unfortunately, nobody's smacked e-ink down yet in the ebook market.