E-ink or LED displays for ebook reading

[murraypaul]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Oh, and if I could have gotten a 5" or 6" screen, with the same properties as my PDA screen, I would never have bought an e-ink device except for those holidays where I won't have access to a powerplug for a few days.

Same here, I didn't get the 505 for the eInk screen for its own sake, but for the extended battery life it allowed. Now I can get sufficient battery life with LCD devices, I don't need it any more.

[Phogg]

Originally Posted by OtterBooks

I don't really consider reading fanatical. I suppose one day it may be.



Well, 93% of the 161 people who expressed their opinion on the matter here feel otherwise. I guess this is a website of deviants.

I will point out that since using different screen technologiez depending on the situation was not an option, I expressed my opinion only in the comments, not in the poll at the beginning. I doubt I am alone.

The poll is not really representative.

[Shimarenda]

I voted e-ink. With an e-ink reader I get an eye-caressing experience while reading, and I can still get the LCD experience if I use my Kindle while shining a flashlight in my face.

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by Shimarenda

I voted e-ink. With an e-ink reader I get an eye-caressing experience while reading, and I can still get the LCD experience if I use my Kindle while shining a flashlight in my face.

*snort*

[astra]

My vote is 157th.

eInk is the only way.

[benham]

Is this a serious question?

[Gulliver]

First post here, I voted E ink, as I have a Kindle and find the screen brilliant to read in all situations even in full sunlight not a problem, I certainly can't say that about my iPad.

[elcreative]

Originally Posted by lindsayw

Yes, of course that's the reason! But Tablets are steadily eating into the eReader market and a Tablet owner will not bother to ALSO buy an eReader, and we will ALL be Tablet owners, by and by.
Must be different from WA, but here in Queensland you can't buy an eReader at retail very easily anywhere... only Tablets. Talk to sales staff here and they dismiss eReaders as "old stuff – Tablets killed them" (past tense!).
But, getting back to the Poll subject, e-Ink is better (eReaders) but what we like best won't matter much. It's what sells best that will determine what we end up using.

Interesting opinion to back your version of the real world... wrong but interesting... check out some of the figures available on the net... generally most comments indicate tablet sales are disappointing whereas the major reader producers claim to be selling everything they can make... now being upside down may make Australia different to the rest of the world but tablets sure aren't destroying eReaders...

[murraypaul]

Originally Posted by elcreative

Interesting opinion to back your version of the real world... wrong but interesting... check out some of the figures available on the net... generally most comments indicate tablet sales are disappointing whereas the major reader producers claim to be selling everything they can make... now being upside down may make Australia different to the rest of the world but tablets sure aren't destroying eReaders...

Tablet sales for anything other than the iPad may well be disappointing.

[elcreative]

Originally Posted by murraypaul

Tablet sales for anything other than the iPad may well be disappointing.

Probably with a "very" in front of the last word...

[Hellmark]

Originally Posted by elcreative

Probably with a "very" in front of the last word...

From what I've seen, only thing non apple and tablety that seems to be selling well, is the Nook Color, but it isn't really marketing itself as a tablet.

[chromedome]

Hi,

I cannot abide reading on LCD or amoled screens. Tablets of the iPad kind are great for glossy magazines and web browsing etc. But when I want to read, I don't want a backlit screen hurting my ageing peepers. E-ink on the newer Pearl screens is just about as good an experience as reading your average paperback to me. (If I need extra light I do what I do when readin a pbook, I switch on the lamp, simple)

I really hope the trend to web-browsing mult-functional e-ink devices leads to cheaper good quality book reading only devices. I owned a Sony PRS600 which I've now passed on to my wife in favour of the Kindle. The Kindle's great, but there's always that temptation to check my g-mail account or browse Amazon, if the book I'm reading ain't that great.

I couldn't justify the cost of the Sony PRS650, but to me that's the ideal device. i.e: No WiFi.

[Gulliver]

Originally Posted by lindsayw

Must be different from WA, but here in Queensland you can't buy an eReader at retail very easily anywhere... only Tablets.

Kindle is available at Woolworths / Safway, Big W or Dick Smith (same parent Co.) here in Victoria.