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Originally Posted by Jack Tingle
b) The jetBook is good because it doesn't have any of the 'features' LDBoblo requested. It only does one thing, cheaply and well. (I have my own very short list of minor annoyances with it, but no showstoppers.) That's not much different from most reflective display readers, LCD or eInk. If 80% of the time, the box is showing a simple, static, screen of text you shouldn't use a powerful microprocessor. Ditto higher than needed resolution.
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So, it's good because the resolution is not very high, the contrast is mediocre, the device is underpowered (and very likely power-inefficient for its speed), and the chassis is not designed very well? Every single thing I "requested" in a reader is to improve its ability to support
reading. You say they do only one thing cheaply and well. I disagree. They are only modestly cheaper than vastly overpriced EPD-based alternatives, and they do not do anything particularly well, including displaying text. They could be far better at that.
And justifying low resolution is laughable. I can understand why some people would support cheap, underpowered processors that make phones look like supercomputers, but the resolution comment was just funny.