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Originally Posted by rowe
E-ink monitors are very good for email, document editing, reading docs, and coding. Which is a large part of how many people use their computers. They can eliminate eye strain for people who are really suffering using regular screens (this can be from many causes and it varies between individuals - reflection, PWM, refresh rate etc...).
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No, they are not, unless paginated.
Also there are plenty of paper like desktop monitors that are flicker free, no reflection (which isn't an inherent eink thing) and give no eyestrain. They are from €150 to €350 depending on size and resolution.
You can buy rubbish shiny ones, or have the brightness too high.
The biggest advantages for eink are for reading mono novels on a portable dedicated ereader in ambient light. An eink desktop monitor is seriously inferior to a much cheaper 4K 23″ HDR flicker free screen that can be adjusted to be like coloured print on quality paper.
I do a lot of document editing and none of the programs are suitable for eink. They have no paginated mode like a PDF viewer or ebook viewer.
I'll stick to reading novels on eink. A desktop monitor is an affectation by someone that's never bought a decent monitor and adjusted it properly.
Even some 17″ and 19″ CRTs thirty years ago had flat non-glare flicker free screens.
My ACT Sirius 1 (Victor 9000 in USA) had long enough persistence green phosphor, a matt black nylon mesh bonded to CRT and nearly flat faceplate. That was 1981 and it was also 800 x 400 graphics, and 80x24 or 132 x 24 texts. The official IBM screen was text only, Mono TV white phosphor and very curved and shiny.
Because there are poor monitors is no reason to get an overpriced eInk monitor which has very limited application.