Appreciate the fair and thoughtful reply!
I'll still wager that many who have trouble with eye strain with LCD screens have mis-generalized-- not only for the masses (e-ink good, LCD bad for everyone)--but even for themselves!
We should run the controlled experiment. iPad vs. Kindle. Or even MacBook Pro with the LCD screen tweaked to settings I've described. I will wager that many of those with "eye strain" will be perfectly comfortable (if we can overcome their inherent bias). A huge part of the dislike of reading on LCD screens comes from their being too bright, long left-right eye motion, and Flash ads.
Another big variable not considered is the ergonomics involved--a Kindle in one's lap in a comfy chair vs. a laptop on the desktop.
Hmm... maybe I can get a grant from Apple to study this.
Now, a nit-pick.
"For any person that has a problem with eye strain the above generalization is an absolute fact." But it isn't!
My point was that for them it may be a fact (although they'd really have to isolate the other variables!), but that does not make it a
generalization for the masses!
That's my key point--too many e-ink advocates claim that LCD screens,
ipso facto, cause eye strain and thus the iPad can't work as an ereader. And that's pure rubbish.
Add to that the thousands, and likely millions, who read *books* on their iPhones, iPod Touches, & other LCD devices, and you have pretty clear evidence that one man's poison is another man's dessert! (Given I modified it from meat to dessert for us vegetarians, I suppose to be p.c., I also should say person!)
I'll bet that once you try an iPad, and adjust the ebook reader settings to suit your taste, you'll be perfectly comfortable reading on it--especially in low light or in the middle of the night when the Kindle can't function!