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Another item I found rather funny was hyping the dual core processor. A few months back, I was looking at the Boyue Likebook Plus which is also a 7.8" device but using a quad core processor -- oddly a very similar device to the Icarus XL HD. I just would love to know how their automatic page turning is implemented. See PocketBook 740 for the original page. As for the asymmetric design of the Oasis 1 and 2, I gather that was done to put most of the weight of the ereader on one side with the page turn buttons making it easier to hold one handed. I've only handled an Oasis 2 on one occasion and I did find it comfortable to hold one-handed for that short period but then I hold my KA1 and Tolino Epos one-handed. |
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If your "Monte Crisco 3" is an e-ink device, it cannot be backlit. To be backlit means the light is behind the screen shining through it. e-ink screens are opaque and light cannot be pass through it. They are frontlit by putting a light guide on the front that shines the light onto the front of the screen.
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Now, perhaps you are simply being pedantic but my device is certainly an e-ink device and it certainly can be read in the dark. |
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02-03-2018, 06:12 AM | #25 | |
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Illuminated eInk devices are frontlit. That is, they have LEDs above the screen, whose light is directed onto the screen from above by a light diffuser. This is not pedantry, but a fundamental difference between lighting systems. |
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I do agree with this point. Width is what largely determines portability. Much though I enjoy reading on my 7" Kindle Oasis 2, I can't put it into even the largest pocket, because it's too wide. It's almost square, because of the "bulge" at one side of the screen.
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Mountain of vegetable based shortening? Surely you jest.
Seriously I thought it was a Monte Cristo 3 as in Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (père). And I'm almost certain that by now many people will have pointed out that an eInk device can not be backlit. Frontlit, yes. |
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