My point is that you're being disingenuous by leaving out the issues with e-ink expressly highlighted by the article, but to address the points
- Dim lighting is contentious because now that you're introducing a light source it isn't dim lighting anymore. Reflected light to overcome the dim lighting is no different that backlighting to overcome the dim lighting unless you stack the deck.
- The contrast is lower than quality newsprint which is an issue for me, but if you want to add subjective modifiers like "perfectly adequate" and "practical" then LCD gains that benefit with the refresh rate.
- Text rendering was EXPRESSLY an issue with Kindle users, just check their support forums. The DPI is lower than magazine print, again an issue, and small lots mean the level of QC either results in higher costs or lower quality displays (compared to mass produced LCD which can afford a higher discard rate).
- I'm well aware of how e-ink works, my point is that raising a negative that "most modern displays do not suffer" is disingenuous; as if I were to raise TFT as an equivalent reflective technology (the example I gave above).
- I disagree about the detail, please read this study:
http://billhillsblog.blogspot.com/20...f-reading.html