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Originally Posted by djgreedo
I didn't make any broad-stroke claims. I stated that I don't like reading on LCD. I even made it clear that I was stating a personal preference.
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i don't recall posting your name (or anyone else's either) in my message. relax.
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That may be true, but I think it points to a disadvantage of LCD. I've heard a lot of people say that the iPad screen can have its brightness adjusted, colours customised, etc. for more comfortable reading. But I prefer to just pick up a device and use it without having to set everything depending on various factors or what I'm doing with it. One of the benefits of most e-ink devices is that they are very simple and easy, intuitive. For reading that's what I want (and for the same reason I have a stand-alone MP3 player even though my phone can play music and video).
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actually i'd say it's an advantage of LCD, to be able to be customized where eink can not. i know quite a few folk who still open up terminal windows with green text on a black background. why? because it is what they are comfortable using. eink gives you pretty much no choice, maybe some slight variations in contrast, but you're stuck with black text on a grey background.
my sony 600 was just as "pick it up and read" as my ipad is. the eink screen had its own quirks with required lighting, getting the angle right, flipping pages a few times to get rid of ghosting. the ipad has settings i can tweak but brightness can be automatically adjusted as well. neither one seemed to really have any speed advantage to me from power on to reading a book. unless you want to include boot time, the sony took several minutes to do its full directory scan, ugh. the ipad boots from a power-off far faster.