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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
hmm... Maybe, if you all try really hard and tilt your ereaders at just the right angle while reading in a certain lighting condition and squint your eyes up really hard, you can discern an image of religious significance, in the pattern of the flickering text.
Ken
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There's no reason to be sarcastic.
I have had several devices with monochromatic LCD screen, such as Apple Newton, Handspring Visor Edge (later replaced by Visor Neo) and the quality of display was OK even with Apple Newton, which is technologically a relic of distant past. There was some problem with Visors, which Handspring acknowledged as being due to different frequency of European and US power grids (50Hz vs 60 Hz) and solved it by producing a small patch which adjusted the LCD to work well in all conditions. Ectaco seems to be much less responsive to user complaints than Handspring used to be, but maybe their engineers are able to find some solution if they are told there is a problem (and this issue was actually raised on Ectaco's own forum).
For me the flicker is bad enough to stop me from using the device when it happens, since I want to go on reading and not play with tilting the device from side to side to be able to see the text properly! Luckily, apart from tilting the device I can also move away from direct source of light and then the flicker is hardly noticeable, so that's what I normally do.
Being able to cope with (partially) faulty goods is one thing and the quality of goods is quite another. So even if I can live with the flicker, I would be much happier if it turned out to be a firmware issue and could be corrected by a firmware upgrade or a patch.
So, summing up, if there are issues with a device using a display technology that has been around for about twenty years, I cannot just say "OK, no problem". The problem is in the device and not in my head and negating it or trying to ridicule those who experience it simply doesn't help to solve it.