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Old 10-16-2011, 02:26 PM   #31
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I have no interest in color e-ink. If there are pics in color that I would want to see, I'd sooner just look at them on my computer or iPad.
Not everyone who needs or wants color has the luxury or desire you have of being able to remain indoors.
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Old 10-16-2011, 09:04 PM   #32
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Not everyone who needs or wants color has the luxury or desire you have of being able to remain indoors.
I was speaking for myself, not the entire human race.
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Old 10-16-2011, 10:01 PM   #33
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Military vehicle guides are not enhanced by being made larger. They need to fit in a cargo pocket.



The short battery life and poor usability outside in the sun make tablets a non starter.

Certain technical manuals could also use color. Again, for military use a screen that works in direct sunlight is a non-negotiable requirement.
Like the digitsed KV-1

I purchased an iPad 2 to allow me to read reference books, especially at my hobbybench. I will keep my ereader for reading fiction ebooks.
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Old 10-17-2011, 03:26 PM   #34
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While I would love a colour e-ink, I would prefer that they continue improving the e-ink's response time before playing with colours.
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Old 10-17-2011, 03:49 PM   #35
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While I would love a colour e-ink, I would prefer that they continue improving the e-ink's response time before playing with colours.
Bookeen has developed high speed eink, what they call high speed ink system, or hsis. The Odyssey is supposed to feature this technology, which is supposed to be released in Europe some time soon.

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Old 10-17-2011, 05:09 PM   #36
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As demonstrated by iPads, and a lesser extent the many versions of Android tablets, the Tablet market far outstrips the ereader market. If a tablet could be made to eliminate the drawbacks of back lighted LCD screens (relatively short battery life and loss of readability in bright light) it would quickly surpass both the tabs and ereaders.

Rest assured that the tablet manufacturers are watching the screen technology arena very closely.
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Old 10-28-2011, 06:10 AM   #37
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I would buy a 10" colour e-ink reader until up to 400$ in a second. And would sell a lot of my RPG books in the next weeks.
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Old 10-28-2011, 11:40 AM   #38
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I remember back in the 90's, PC monitors started to come out in colour. I was a mac guy at the time, and the best we had was grayscale. We mac people argued loudly at the time that colour was just chrome, and other than making the desktop look pretty, it didn't serve any real purpose.

That argument looks kind of silly in retrospect. I don't think many of us would go back to grayscale monitors.

Given a choice, I'd rather have higher contrast monochrome e-ink than colour. But when we get colour (which we eventually will), I will love it. And so will you.
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Old 10-29-2011, 11:18 PM   #39
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I have the opposite question. Can any of the new color ereaders have the ability to switch between color and eink? In other words, because presently the quality of black and white text in eink is so much better than can be found so far on color tablets, I would want to switch to eink on a color reader or tablet when all I want to do is read a black and white book.
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Old 10-30-2011, 01:02 AM   #40
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I have the opposite question. Can any of the new color ereaders have the ability to switch between color and eink? In other words, because presently the quality of black and white text in eink is so much better than can be found so far on color tablets, I would want to switch to eink on a color reader or tablet when all I want to do is read a black and white book.
You're missing the point. Color e-ink is not "what can be found so far on color tablets". This is not about switchable displays. It is a new technology, that offers the same advantages for color as current e-ink does for b&w. At the moment there are, however, still significant drawbacks.
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I have the opposite question. Can any of the new color ereaders have the ability to switch between color and eink? In other words, because presently the quality of black and white text in eink is so much better than can be found so far on color tablets, I would want to switch to eink on a color reader or tablet when all I want to do is read a black and white book.
I'm pretty sure the answer is no, and can't really imagine how it would be done. (The eink panel would have to go behind the LCD panel because it is opaque. But then how would you read the eink through the LCD? And for that matter, how would you light the LCD?)
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Old 10-30-2011, 09:13 PM   #42
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I would build a 10" colour e-ink reader until up to 400$ in a second. And would sell a lot of my RPG books in the next weeks.
There's one coming this fall from Ectaco in your price range:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...this-fall-350/

I'd rather use GoodReader on the iPad, myself.
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Old 11-04-2011, 04:26 AM   #43
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I'd rather use GoodReader on the iPad, myself.
Can you read your ipad on the beach ? Or, just outside, without any trouble ?
The answer is no, and for me, it's a big deal.

Thanks for the link !
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Old 11-04-2011, 04:59 PM   #44
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I would kill for colour e-ink. I can imagine few things I want more than something like the notebook computer I'm typing this on with the battery life or even half, of my kindle.

Mwah ha ha haargh. And I could use it outside on a sunny day... Mmm Mmm!

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Old 11-05-2011, 11:27 AM   #45
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AS I read mostly text, color wouldn't be that useful to me. Save for being able to chose background color and such.

I'll gladly take it when it comes, but I'm not tapping my foot impatiently for that.
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