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I basically don't use my Kindle paoerwhite because of the tiny lag. It is regretful how impatient and intolerant I am. Many people seem fine with this amount of

I basically don't use my Kindle paoerwhite because of the tiny lag. It is regretful how impatient and intolerant I am. Many people seem fine with this amount of lag, not me. Probably the Remarkable has less lag but it's noticeable in the video. Wish e-ink products would specify the lag for various ops. As soon as a product like Remarkable gets below my annoyance/intolerance/impatience threshold I'm sold. I like adding diagrams to my text, probably I ought to get a digitiser and pen. Until e-ink reaches the sweet spot any recommendations?

kayoone 10y ago
I agree, the lag is barely tolerable for turning pages, but as soon as i want to mark something or look up a word in the dictionary, the lag really annoys me.
Veen 10y ago
I'm not sure on the Paperwhite, but on the Voyage there's an option to stop the kindle refreshing the screen on every page turn. It makes page turns faster, but you might see a tiny bit of ghosting from previous pages.
- david-given 10y ago
  On the Paperwhite you can set it to refresh every fifteenth page turn, but I find the occasional flash of a refresh much more distracting than a flash every time, which I can get used to. In fact, these days I never even see the flash any more; it happens as I move my eye from bottom right to top left and so I'm hardly ever consciously aware of it.
eric_h 10y ago
> Remarkable has less lag but it's noticeable in the video I found the editing of that video to be extremely frustrating as I wanted to see a straight up shot of someone writing something on a blank screen. The only shot of that I saw (I scrubbed through the video pretty quickly, so I might have missed a better one) was blurred so much that I couldn't see how bad the lag was. I think that video was very clearly attempting to disguise how bad the lag is.
- snaky 10y ago
  That's so common with e-ink devices. The quote is about another crowd-funded e-ink device[1] > Look at the two videos and it will be apparent that screen refreshes are horrible; they have highly edited the videos to hide this fact and other inconsistencies [1] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3285829&postcount=8 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3285829&pos...
  - eric_h 10y ago
    > That's so common with e-ink devices Which is very unfortunate. The intentional deception is so obvious to me that it leaves me wondering what else they're hiding. As a result I won't touch the product with a ten foot pole.

kayoone 10y ago

I agree, the lag is barely tolerable for turning pages, but as soon as i want to mark something or look up a word in the dictionary, the lag really annoys me.

Veen 10y ago

I'm not sure on the Paperwhite, but on the Voyage there's an option to stop the kindle refreshing the screen on every page turn. It makes page turns faster, but you might see a tiny bit of ghosting from previous pages.

david-given 10y ago
On the Paperwhite you can set it to refresh every fifteenth page turn, but I find the occasional flash of a refresh much more distracting than a flash every time, which I can get used to. In fact, these days I never even see the flash any more; it happens as I move my eye from bottom right to top left and so I'm hardly ever consciously aware of it.

eric_h 10y ago

> Remarkable has less lag but it's noticeable in the video I found the editing of that video to be extremely frustrating as I wanted to see a straight up shot of someone writing something on a blank screen. The only shot of that I saw (I scrubbed through the video pretty quickly, so I might have missed a better one) was blurred so much that I couldn't see how bad the lag was. I think that video was very clearly attempting to disguise how bad the lag is.

snaky 10y ago
That's so common with e-ink devices. The quote is about another crowd-funded e-ink device[1] > Look at the two videos and it will be apparent that screen refreshes are horrible; they have highly edited the videos to hide this fact and other inconsistencies [1] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3285829&postcount=8 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3285829&pos...
- eric_h 10y ago
  > That's so common with e-ink devices Which is very unfortunate. The intentional deception is so obvious to me that it leaves me wondering what else they're hiding. As a result I won't touch the product with a ten foot pole.