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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
Because not everyone uses devices slowly. Try flipping through a 20-page range of text to find a quote. To that end, E-Ink is rubbish. Try quickly skimming through a dozens or even hundreds of pages of a PDF document to find a page with a certain chart. Again, E-Ink is not really sufficient for the task. These are just a couple of simple examples based on reading, without any discussion of other types of media.
E-Ink's speed is a horrible turn-off when considering e-paper devices for academic reading or research. Sure it's understandable that some people have slow reading habits. They won't need speed. But is it really so hard to understand that some people have higher standards?
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This issue has been discussed in other threads ad nauseum already. E-ink is good for "sequential" reading (e.g. novels, and such), but not that good for reference material where you need to skip pages and passages.
I found with my PRS-900 that the software features of the reader help overcome this issue a great deal:
1. Good ToC support - all my PDF material is so much easier to use now that I can go back to ToC and drill-down through the chapters to where I need to go in a flash.
2. Bookmarks - also easy to use
3. Text search
Of course, I've spoken to people who don't find this good enough, but they also tend to stick to paper books and post it notes for bookmarks and note taking.
Hopefully with the new tech coming out some of these issues will see significant improvements.