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Originally Posted by KevinBurke
Sorry, but no serious reader of ebooks can consider an LCD based reader as anything but an utter complete joke.
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Having been a reader of eBooks since approximately 1991, and having a personal collection of around 20,000 eBooks, I would consider myself to be a reasonably "serious reader of eBooks". As you can see from my profile on the left, I have numerous reading devices, both eInk and LCD, so I am in a good position to compare the technologies. Both have their pros and cons.
eInk is certainly better for outdoor reading (you can't read a backlit LCD screen outdoors at all), and when I do read outdoors, naturally I use an eInk device (the BeBook Neo is my personal favourite).
For indoor use, however, the iPad has numerous benefits. Instant page turns and annotation (the slow refresh rate of eInk leads to a somewhat annoying time lag of a fraction of a second when annotating a book), and a much, much wider range of software available.
I honestly have to say "don't knock it until you've tried it", and I'm not just speaking from 2nd hand reviews, but from 20-odd years of reading eBooks on everything from PDAs to eInk device to the iPad.