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Personally I'm not in the market for a color eReader. I just like there is a choice. |
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Pocketbook, Onyx, Bigme etc have been pursuing niches at a high price unserved by others and are pretty small. The Libra Colour will hurt them more than it helps Kobo.
Judging by the size of the companies doing colour eink till now there are few buying it, and that's a niche within eink that itself is a niche dominated by Amazon Kindle with Kobo at #2. Also look at numbers of views and posts on each make on the forum. |
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I agree choice is good. Given the dishonesty or misleading marketing of some of the color eink models I wonder how many people that don't frequent Mobile Read knew what they were getting? |
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![]() I'm curious if the new devices will cannibalize the Elipsa 2e series. |
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The Sage is better than the Elipsa for notes and for many PDFs. More pixels despite 8″ rather than 10.3″, lighter weight, more suitable to read epubs. I've both.
A 7″ seems a bit small for comics or PDFs and the colour makes it much poorer than Libra or Libra 2 for epubs and especially PDFs because you have half the resolution. I've both of them too. But the Elipsa is better than the reMarkble, by far. Quote:
There really is hardly any SW difference for ebook rendering or GUI or notes with colour eink vs mono eink. The driving of the panel is the only significance difference to map the colours to what are now sub pixels (in reality the same mono ink pixels). |
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When I still had the (original) Elipsa, I was quite disappointed about the capabilities of the "smart notebooks", which were so slow and awkward to use. This may have gotten better, but it was so frustrating. However, I'm fully aware, that Kobos are mostly advertised as reading devices with note-taking capabilities, and taking notes on books worked fairly well. So overall, for what it's intended to do, it's fine, and the smart notebooks might be in a much better state than when I had my Elipsa. |
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Does the Boox Note Air 2 do actual conversion to text on the device off line, or is it simply capturing handwriting for processing elsewhere? |
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Before Reddit got rid of their compact view (and I quit going to their forums), there were quite a few people asking about (and buying) PocketBooks (Kobo and PocketBook were often the choices when they didn't want Kindles). But those who post on forums are also a small niche within a niche (as you say). |
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Anywhoo, I realize I'm beating a dead horse. Read eInk, by all means. Horses for courses. It's just that enough time has gone by that we KNOW that the masses have no problem reading on phones and tablets. All the "science" that was presented about how harmful reading on anything but paper or eInk was bogus. |
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I truly do have compassion for folks who are only just now getting color reading as an option because they can't read comfortable on a tablet. It's far more expensive, and a LOT worse color than what the rest of the world has been enjoying for decades. I too have an uncommon "hurts me but not most people" affliction. I can't play Call of Duty or any of those types of games. I can't play hardly any VR game, I get sick within minutes. It's a real thing. But I realize I'm in the minority and don't say foolish things like "science tells us that reading on LCD will harm your eyes". |
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I have smartphone but I almost never use it. I do my calling on a flip phone (which is what I carry when I go out). The flip phone is a back-up in case in case the electricity or Internet goes down. (It's on an inexpensive pre-pay plan.) |
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I haven't personally held a color E-Ink reader, so I have no idea what I would think of one if I did. I'm guessing it would just be a novelty for me. |
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