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Originally Posted by kacir
Have YOU actually seen an e-ink display in person?
Have YOU compared your Jetbook to an e-ink device side to side?
I feel I can see a very strong, unwarranted pro-reflective-TFT-LCD/anti-Eink bias in your post ;-)
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Sigh. I already said I have very little experience with e-ink. What little direct experience I had of e-ink supported the generalized saying of it being "as good as a paper book".
What I DID say I had compared side by side was a paper book and reflective lcd. And I went on to say many people seem to say e-ink is almost as good/as good as reading a paper book when it comes to eyestrain.
What I have is strong bias against people that use statements that I know to be false such as the "fact" you cant read lcd in sunlight and the "fact" that lcd causes more eyestrain than e-ink. ie no qualifiers.
So in answer, no I haven't compared e-ink and reflective lcd side by side I compared them both to a paper book and drew a conclusion that applied to me.
Now, have you compared them side by side?
If so, what were your results?
Have you compared them both to paper books?
Unless an e-ink devices causes me considerably less eyestrain than a paper book does, for ME its not as good as reflective lcd. Because the reflective lcd DOES cause me a good bit less eyestrain than a paper book. I haven't seen anyone that stated e-ink was that much better than a paper book when it comes to eyestrain. Not saying its not possible for some people.
As for the age of this thread, to me its still valid. I haven't seen any substantial changes in reflective lcds or e-ink devices in the last year.
The crux of the e-ink supporters liking seems to be that it doesn't shine light in their eyes ie no backlite. Which is why I only compared reflective lcd to e-ink and agreed back lit lcds tend to cause more eyestrain.
So yes I have a bias but its not against e-ink its against the all encompassing claims made by certain e-ink supporters. Thankfully not as much of that here as on certain blogs.