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Old 07-05-2010, 05:34 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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.
Dude, you don't have a clue. You are no more qualified to comment than someone who has tried to read an ebook on a computer LCD screen and Phone LCD screen or PDA LCD screen and an e-ink reader like myself. It doesn't matter that I never owned an LCD based ereader. LCD is LCD and it can't compete with E-ink. If its LCD based it is a complete joke to serious book readers; if you don't think so you then you are an elementary sophomore reader rather than a serious analytical and syntopical (graduate level reader) reader. Sure the mechanics of of analytical and syntopical reading can be carried out, with lcd annotations and notes, but you just can't sustain long reading times on them for it to be practical enough. Maybe you are like a retarded chimpanzee with ADD, so you don't notice, since you probably have a short attention span. However, for us human non-retarded non-chimpanzees, without ADD, LCD is a joke for reading books. Outdoor or indoor LCD sucks for long reading times. It doesn't matter.However, retarded chimpanzees with ADD don't notice that and think it is good for indoor reading just not outside. Forbes magazine is shrewd in business matters, such as the ereader market demographic needs, and obviously knows what it is talking about. If Ereaders were all LCD and E-ink never existed then I would have never bought an ereader in the first place. I would have just read books on my laptop and desktop computer machines. Please get a clue.
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