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Originally Posted by Demas
You didn't provide a balanced view however...
- Human eyes get strained by poor contrast, where LCD has the advantage.
- Human eyes get strained by dim lighting conditions, where LCD has the advantage.
- Human eyes get less strained when looking at poor text rendering which can occur with low DPI, small manufacturing lots, only 16 levels of grey, and proprietary software coming from consumer e-ink devices as opposed to LCD APIs for mainstream OSes (this very issue occurred with the Kindle 2, though eventually patched).
- Human eyes won't get strained by anything with a high refresh rate, including LCD... equivocated ones with poor refresh rate is like equivocating low-quality e-paper solutions like TFT with e-ink.
- Human eyes get strained with too little detail in attempting to resolve text, but neither too much nor too little detail is trouble for a versatile LCD which can use non-native resolutions.
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My experience has been exactly the
opposite.
- Poor contrast hasn't caused me eye strain (though it can slow my reading).
- Dim lighting conditions don't strain my yes, but it does affect my speed and accuracy.
- Haven't had any problem with low PPI. Infact, my new Onyx Boox has a much higher resolution than my current LCD monitor, 167 ppi vs 86.27 ppi (according to an online calculator). Of course, it does only have 8 (soon 16) shades of grey, so it will have more trouble with certain fonts.
- While low refresh rates do cause lots of problems, having a high refresh rate doesn't mean that you wont have problems. Besides, an E-Ink screen refreshes as fast as your light source, which approaches infinity for direct or indirect sunlight.