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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
Hurts your eyes? How?
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Since the launch of the Kindle I've heard that E-ink is a much better display option for Ebooks because reading on it for an extended period would be less strenuous/tiring than reading for a similar length of time on an LCD/CRT display. Now each people may have different opinion as to exactly how less eye-tiring e-ink is vs LCD. Anyway, if I read books on LCD for more than 2 hours, my eyes do hurt, but I can read on a good e-ink device for 3 hours in a row without noticeable eye tiring. I am saying in general, it is true for most people that reading books on LCD hurts your eyes more than on an e-ink display (because of the reflective screen and the refresh rate), but your mileage may vary as some people find the page refresh behavior of e-ink more unbearable than the reflective screen on LCD. And it also depends on which particular e-ink or LCD display you are reading, I personally find Apple's LCD less strenuous on eyes than other brands LCD, and the nook pleases my eyes better than any other e-ink readers I tried. In the following thread, the lady said she could only read about 20 minutes each time because of the poor screen contrast of the ezreader pocketpro.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84644