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View Poll Results: Which electronic reading format is easiest on the eyes? | |||
E-ink | 295 | 76.62% | |
Color LCD | 14 | 3.64% | |
Both are equally easy on my eyes | 76 | 19.74% | |
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11-26-2011, 11:39 AM | #76 |
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LIH (Laughing In Head) at the seven who picked the LCD display. That's a bold position to take. I'd have loved to hear more about the reasons on this thread.
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11-26-2011, 06:09 PM | #77 | |
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I read on my Nook STR on planes and on vacation -- places where I will have a guarantee of good light and may not have recharge options. Everywhere else I read on my phone, because my phone is always with me and I don't have to worry about having enough light to read on e-ink or carrying around a separate light. |
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11-26-2011, 07:54 PM | #78 | |
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And the backlight is not "shining directly in your eyes" any more than the light reflecting off of an eink page is "reflecting directly in your eyes". Finally, more pixels == smoother letters == easier to read without straining, regardless of backlight or otherwise. Due to the nature of pixels on LCD (perfect squares) vs. eink (rough-edged squares), LCDs require a higher pixel density to produce as smooth letter forms. A nook color with a 7" 1024x600 screen is still only 170ppi. Try reading on a phone with over 200ppi (or an iPhone with over 300ppi) and see if that makes a difference. |
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11-27-2011, 12:13 AM | #81 |
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Never had an issue with either and I've been reading ebooks on backlit screens for 12 years. Eink is my outdoor choice and LCD for inside reading.
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11-27-2011, 12:21 AM | #82 |
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I find it tough to go to sleep if I'm looking at an LCD screen at night, but not so if I'm reading from an E-ink display. I'm far too used to LCD displays over the years to let it give me a headache unless I'm staring at it all day long, but I do have friends who get headaches from looking at an LCD screen for more than a couple of hours.
LCD screens do affect humans in a way that is different to e-ink, no denying it. |
11-27-2011, 01:38 AM | #83 |
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Perhaps it also depends how you read? How close do you hold the tablet/ereader to your face? With a computer/laptop/netbook you are far away from the screen. An e-reader or tablet you can hold quite close up to your eyes.
So when I am on the road and read on the phone I leave my glasses on and try to hold it at arm's length. |
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11-27-2011, 11:42 AM | #85 |
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A little off topic but somehow related?
I've started to see that tablets are more and more popular as reading devices while eink is being put on a second place. Just watch Amazon. Long time critics against iPad and now selling a tablet. I just hope eink stay with us for long time. BTW, my vote is for eink. |
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These are informed responses, toddos, and exactly the kind I've been hoping for all along.
I, too, have noticed that greater ppi = less eye strain. But in terms of smartphones, I've only found ppi to be sufficient on the iPhone 4 and greater. My own phone is a first-gen Galaxy S and my eyes definitely become strained if I stare at its screen for too long. I also see negative scotomas afterward due to the prolonged light, which I don't with eInk. Now that the Nexus Prime and other smartphones have higher-resolution screens, I'm looking forward to testing that reading experience over time. (Feel free to call the experience DEKNAR -- the Display Enhancement Formerly Known As Retina -- even though it only ever should have been called 640 x 960 at 326 ppi.) As you mention, the iPad's resolution is still gimped, which is one of the many reasons I don't own a tablet currently. But here's the question: In terms of eye strain, why does resolution matter so much on an LCD screen and so little on an eInk screen? Is it really only a matter of "perfect squares"? And what about the depth distance argument that is sometimes made against LCD screens? Quote:
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My guess as to why eink is more comfortable at lower ppi is because the pixels don't have sharp edges like an LCD pixel, but I have no research to back that up. To my eye, the rougher pixels give eink a bit of "texture" almost like paper. As for transmissive vs. reflective light, I call shenanigans. Look directly at a lightbulb. Now take a mirror and reflect that lightbulb right into your eyes. Both hurt the same, yeah? The light from an LCD backlight is diffused through the LCD panel. When you're looking at a white pixel, that's not the same thing as staring directly at a white LED. People get headaches from flicker, not from a light source. Back when LCDs were lit by CCFLs that ran at 60Hz, that was valid. No tablet or phone uses a CCFL backlight, and very few laptops do anymore either. Many desktop LCDs and HDTVs do, however, which is why I suspect people are extrapolating from their poor PC/TV experience and saying they would hate backlit phones or tablets for reading without actually having tried them. |
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Sometimes the market forces companies to drop support and devices that are good, just not as profitable. I don't think that new 3G Kindles are as nice as before, in terms of features I mean. It looks they captured the market and now are taking advantage of it. Hopefully I'm wrong. |
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11-27-2011, 05:52 PM | #90 |
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don't forget, too high contrast rates also give headaches, and flickering screens do too!
I'm quite sure that pixelqi is the way of the future. I mean, my jetbook does 24 hours on an LCD screen, that's not bad at all! And it's not even pixelqi's screen they use! With a little fine tweaking, I'm sure battery life could go up to 30 hours on a 5" jetbook, and 20hrs for a 1024x600 pix resolution screen. That's almost a 2MPix black and white screen (since each pixel can be subdivided in 3 B&W pixels)! |
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