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Originally Posted by Superlucky
The Palm can do far more... except for it looks like a computer screen, not paper. Dedicated reading devices are designed to be easy on the eye, and for that you need e-ink - something back-lit devices can't compete with.
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First eink was developed for profit and they could care less if it's easier on your eyes. The mfg just do not want to be sued.
Next is the key....LCD displays "can be straining on people's eyes", unless of course, you understand you can adjust the color scheme used as well as turn down the backlight. I use FBReader on my N800 and have a wonderful cream-off-white background for most reading and simply invert the display for night lights-out reading. A properly configured color scheme and properly adjusted backlight will send no more "harmful" light into your eyes than the light reflected from an eink panel. It is just with LCD you have total control over that light.
I realize many, many, many people have bought into LCD displays being bad for your eyes, but none stop to admit if they ever took the time to properly adjust the display so it does not cause problems.
BTW, when LCD's were emerging the same arguments used for eink today were given to support LCD displays. More irony I would say...but in a funny haha fashion...what goes around comes around and what the masses believe to be "great" today is tomorrow's "it's killing our children" device.
Me? I find my K1 completely worthless in typical room lighting, but if I want to sit out on my deck in the sun and read, it's amazing. But indoors I have MORE eye strain and enjoy reading less with eink compared to either my PDA or my N800 devices. Face it, eink NEEDS light to make it readable, this actually somewhat offsets the idea of battery life as well as energy savings using them when you need lightbulbs turned on in order to make them readable.
As this argument always reduces to and for the 1000000000th time it has come along, there is no hard and fast rule, it's what works for the individual.