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Old 02-16-2010, 01:57 PM   #104
LJ Miehe
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Originally Posted by Demas View Post
Nope. Form factor is.

Otherwise you'd stick to books... which have paper "displays" as highly esteemed by reflection display advocates. Imagine an e-reader "monitor" that provide perfect paper experience... but is chained to a desktop, with a power cord, in sizes no less than 23". You wouldn't care about such a device.

e-ink is a compromise of readability, affordability, form factor, and battery life... if the compromises it chooses makes you happy, terrific, but that's far different from saying it is empirically superior for readability where other technologies elect a different balance of compromises to enhance that.
I will have to give you that correction to my point, now after thinking about it, is form factor and the portability is the most important but the screen technology is the second most important element of a eReader device. eInk beats LCD/LED hands down, at this point it does not compare when you are trying to emulate paper.
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