An abundance of Claras, a derth of Libra(s)

[BionicGecko]

Originally Posted by sydmalicious

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.

[Aleron Ives]

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.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

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.