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Originally Posted by Quoth
Unless someone is looking for colour on eink, bringing colour into the mix on a request for a 10" eink ereader is pointless, because unless you need colour for prolonged periods (like you mostly read comic books/graphic novels) they are pointless.
So it's not just the theory of the resolution. Unlike LCD or OLED the colour eink are inherently much poorer experience for regular novels or mono textbooks than colour vs mono on LCD/OLED. They are not that great even for colour being either pastel (current ones) or darker (triton) and less than 4096* colours/hues/shades compared with 32,000+ on High Colour and 16,000,000+ on True Colour LCD/OLED. They need hugely bright ambient light or significant front light. In ambient light good enough for non-POD or old paperback mono eink are fine to read, even with Pearl eink, never mind Carta or Carta1200. And they are definitely lower quality text than 300 dpi mono, especially in Dark Mode.
@cellaris
You are being too kind to Colour eink. They are a niche. Of course most of those people that have bought one will be happy with it.
[* Forget about Gallery, while ingenious it's not currently suitable for an ereader, it's for signage and though more colours and potential for better resolution due to C Y M cells, at 1.5 second for a full update it's uselss for an ereader].
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Not to be particularly kind, but I think it is precisely in 10" e-readers (which are already a niche of their own) that colour makes the most sense. Mainly for two reasons: because of the size, where colour offers more possibilities, and because the screen resolution is the lowest in monochrome e-readers (with the exception of the Kindle Scribe they are all 227 dpi or less).