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i don't recall posting your name (or anyone else's either) in my message. relax.
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My apologies. You were replying to a reply to one of my comments so I assumed to were referring to my comments.
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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.
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Absolutely. I agree with you.
I meant it is a disadvantage in terms of simplicity. I like to pick up my Kindle, flick the switch and start reading immediately. I don't like the barrier that setting up the screen presents. I'd have different preferences for watching video, web browsing, reading, different lighting conditions, etc. I don't want to spend time getting the screen just right. I found I did that when reading on my phone - so I stopped reading on my phone.
From a functionality and customisation point of view LCD runs rings around e-ink.[/QUOTE]
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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.
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If he 600 is anything like the 700 it is a terrible e-ink screen (or rather the touchscreen layer ruins the e-ink). I find the Kindle screen looks great in any light I'd read in, whereas my old Sony PRS-700 was as you describe - I needed more light, the right angle, etc.
As for speed I was referring to changing settings for optimal viewing, as I described above. If you're totally comfortable reading LCD this would be irrelevant.