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Originally Posted by leebase
Do you have an iPad -- do you know what you are talking about? I can't stand reading long form on my laptop or any computer monitor. I can read for hours and hours on my iPad with no eyestrain whatsoever. I've finished 11 books so far -- reading with the iBooks app (my favorite), the kindle app and Stanza.
We have all this testimony now -- not theory -- of people quite happily reading away on their iPad.
Do some folks not like it? Yes. Just like SOME folks don't like eInk screens.
So "for you and others like you" -- you need to actually TRY it to know. You do not know based only on your experience reading on a computer monitor.
Lee
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I have tried an iPad (I would never
own an Apple product) and find it no different to any other LCD screen (it is quite a nice screen, but still backlit, and I'm still reading something that is 'not really there'. It's unpleasant. I still felt my eyes relax whenever I looked away from the screen. FWIW my vision is fine - tested 20/20 about 18 months ago, never needed glasses). I tried the Alice in Wonderland app and loved it - but I found that even the small amounts of text still suffered from the drawbacks of LCD. And the iBooks app is terrible. The whole page-turning animation thing is horribly tacky and backwards looking. That's Apple for you.
You seem to take offence at what I said yet you are making the same point. People have different preferences. I didn't state that e-ink was better than LCD. I simply prefer it. Believe me, I wish I could read books on LCD. I'd get a tablet immediately and enjoy the benefits of a touchscreen, colour, video, etc. But for now I am not willing to sacrifice the screen I prefer for extra functionality.
You also imply that your testimony of reading on an iPad in some way trump my personal experience. That doesn't make any sense. With something that is subjective testimony is irrelevant. You like what you like and I like what I like.
My point was that people shouldn't compare casual reading on a computer screen (which is how most people read on a computer) to reading 40 pages in one sitting without looking away from the page/screen because for some people they are entirely different experiences.