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View Poll Results: Which electronic reading format is easiest on the eyes? | |||
E-ink | 295 | 76.62% | |
Color LCD | 14 | 3.64% | |
Both are equally easy on my eyes | 76 | 19.74% | |
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11-27-2011, 06:12 PM | #91 | |
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11-27-2011, 07:34 PM | #92 | |
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And there is a difference between staring into a bulb and staring into a reflection of the bulb as it appears twice as far away... and what has that got with anything anyway as I explicitly excluded the effect of a mirror... it is a different form of reflectivity to that from a DIFFUSE surface such as e-ink or a book... how many books have you got that reflect an exact image of nearly 100% of the light/image acting on them??? |
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11-27-2011, 08:07 PM | #93 | |
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Reflective vs. transmissive, you don't get to have it both ways. Light reflected off an eink surface is diffused by the surface. Light transmitted through an LCD panel is diffused by the panel. Both are diffuse light. They are the same. Last edited by toddos; 11-27-2011 at 08:10 PM. |
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11-27-2011, 09:27 PM | #94 | |
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11-27-2011, 09:29 PM | #95 |
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I chose both are easy on my eyes even though I only have a NookColor and haven't spent much time with e-ink. Backlit screens have never bothered me, for which I am thankful because I like being able to hop online & tell my friends how much I'm enjoying (or not) a book before moving on to something else, without having to fire up my laptop.
I've looked at e-ink readers in stores, and I still feel that the background is too grayish in appearance for my personal preference. |
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11-28-2011, 02:48 AM | #96 | |
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11-28-2011, 06:25 AM | #97 | |
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I quite liked your second response, toddos -- you weren't throwing science-shapes as much as you were describing your own experience in accurate language. I do hope people caught that distinction, because it's the difference between prestidigitation and useful subjective data.
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The visual effect is residual and seems prolonged and heightened by intensities of light, rather like the sonic equivalent: relentless after-tones heard by people with tinnitus. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 11-28-2011 at 07:14 PM. |
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11-28-2011, 08:59 AM | #98 | |
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I NEVER said e-ink is god, I said LCD for reading can trigger a migraine attack but I suppose that's OK for you as you don't have any problems... |
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11-28-2011, 09:06 AM | #99 |
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Granted this is an e-reader oriented forum, but stil 230-7 is a drubbing.
People are either: (a) Lying through their asses in a mass conspiracy to make the LCD proponents feel bad OR (b) Voting for what they truly consider the better option for themselves. I know which I'd rather believe. Atleast this is a poll on a forum that has its users experienced in using both technologies, unlike other tech forums. |
11-28-2011, 09:12 AM | #100 |
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I think it's interesting that the vote here pretty much matches the vote at cnet.com that prompted this poll.
Their poll currently stands at 76%/9%/15% from 5277 votes. Our poll currently stands at 79%/2%/19% from 294 votes. Remarkably close for two different populations of voters. It seems that at least three quarters of people prefer e-ink over lcd for reading. |
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Mobi to F8 looks like a mini-recap of computers' move from word processing to desktop publishing, just as the Cloud-based media libraries recall the shift of interest from exclusively hard-drive-stored content to that of the web. Books are left behind in that sense, which makes me worry about the future of both dedicated reading and displays which are optimized and consciously limited for it. On the other hand, Mirasol displays are finally here (as you well know). |
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11-28-2011, 11:28 PM | #102 | |
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However, the danger is that readers will become such a small minority soon (with the onslaught of media devices) that nobody does care about our needs anymore. |
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11-30-2011, 05:37 AM | #103 |
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11-30-2011, 05:40 AM | #104 | |
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And the jetbook lasts 24 hours on battery, which I find,is quite enough! It translates to me that I have to charge the jetbook every week, as where I have to charge the PRS every 2 to 3 weeks! E-ink for me was interesting primarily because it's efficient use of battery power! Not for it's viewability. Looking like real paper was an extra to me. I don't care if I have a PixelQi screen, or one like the jetbook's screen, because to me it looks identical to e-ink (save for a tad greyer whites and blacks, and when using a magnifying glass you'll see that e-ink is higher resolution than LCD, but also only marginally). Last edited by ProDigit; 11-30-2011 at 05:43 AM. |
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