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Old Today, 02:19 AM   #31
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I know folks have been awaiting the color, but outside of Manga/comics, what is the benefit of the color Libra?
Honestly not much; it’s fun to see your book covers in color, and perhaps the odd illustration or map which happens to be in color in your book, but you won’t notice it for 95%+ of the time. Yet when I go back to my non-color readers, I miss the colors in that 5%.

It’s basically an unnecessary luxury you get used to having and somewhat miss when you don’t.
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Unfortunately, that luxury comes at the cost of significantly worse contrast, so if you're sensitive to that kind of thing, having colour covers also greatly degrades the actual reading experience. Some people are bothered by the "rainbow" effect of the colour matrix when reading greyscale content, and others are not. YMMV.
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Unfortunately, that luxury comes at the cost of significantly worse contrast, so if you're sensitive to that kind of thing, having colour covers also greatly degrades the actual reading experience. Some people are bothered by the "rainbow" effect of the colour matrix when reading greyscale content, and others are not. YMMV.
I'm bothered that the Libra 2 was disconnected for what is essentially a much worse device.
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Unfortunately, that luxury comes at the cost of significantly worse contrast, so if you're sensitive to that kind of thing, having colour covers also greatly degrades the actual reading experience. Some people are bothered by the "rainbow" effect of the colour matrix when reading greyscale content, and others are not. YMMV.
While the color screen is undoubtedly darker than normal b/w eInk screens, to be fair I don’t find the contrast to be terrible with the light on; in fact I think it’s better than on my Oasis (but not as good as my Voyage). The text is very sharp. I’m also perhaps one of the lucky ones who don’t see (or mind) that “rainbow” effect. What does bother me is the left-right lighting gradient, which is significantly worse on the Libra Colour than on my Kindles. The screen being quite dark pretty much requires the light to be on at all times when reading, so it is something to consider.
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While the color screen is undoubtedly darker than normal b/w eInk screens, to be fair I don’t find the contrast to be terrible with the light on; in fact I think it’s better than on my Oasis (but not as good as my Voyage). The text is very sharp. I’m also perhaps one of the lucky ones who don’t see (or mind) that “rainbow” effect. What does bother me is the left-right lighting gradient, which is significantly worse on the Libra Colour than on my Kindles. The screen being quite dark pretty much requires the light to be on at all times when reading, so it is something to consider.
From what's been said by some owners, the Libra Colour needs about 20-30% light to match the Libra 2 with no light on. And because of the high % the light needs, the battery is not as good as that of the Libra 2. Overall, the Libra Colour has a worse battery (based on usage) and poor contrast because it's too dark.
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