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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
Well yes and no; a high-contrast LCD with a given method of font-smoothing (to compensate for the low resolution) will display finer text than will a lower-contrast screen. This is painfully obvious with traditional Chinese, but I see it with some of my favorite western typefaces as well.
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There is more to readability than crisp text. Backlit anything (afaik) produces more eye strain. Research has also indicated that CRT's reduce reading speed, presumably due to the display lighting, refresh rates, scrolling. I don't know of any research specifically on eInk, but I'd assume it will be close to, if not the same, as reading paper, as it's static.
Also, ideally eInk will continue to improve -- though clearly that's a wild card. eInk has done OK with execution, but who knows if that will continue to be the case.
When LCD / Pixel Qi / etc products actually ship, we'll have a better idea.
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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
Then there's the speed side of things, which is another problem too often dismissed by people with low standards.
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Not sure I'd agree with that characterization, given the drubbing the nook is getting for its unresponsive UI....
That said, I don't have too hard a time getting around an eInk device. It definitely takes longer to flip pages, but it's also fairly easy to search for a specific word. And for me, as a Kindle user, if they ditched "locations" and went with "pages" instead, mentally it'd be much easier to hop around a book.