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eInk is a lot nicer for reading books than LCD screens. The downside is that eInk currently only supports black-and-white and turning pages is roughly only as
by vaylian 6y ago
eInk is a lot nicer for reading books than LCD screens.
The downside is that eInk currently only supports black-and-white and turning pages is roughly only as fast as turning the page of a book.
Also, battery life is counted in days (and sometimes weeks) and not in hours.
- ryzvonusef 6y ago> The downside is that eInk currently only supports black-and-white E-ink Kaleido with 4096 colors at 100 ppi are available commercially since past few weeks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqiCOheb1jo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqiCOheb1jo
- rtkwe 6y agoThose are really neat, the big issue is they’re still pretty low saturation so the images don’t look as good as an actual LED/LCD screen.
- vaylian 6y agoThank you! I did not know about this. This is a really cool development. Even if the saturation (as mentioned by rtkwe) is not the greatest, this is a big step towards reading more analytical texts with colored graphs.
- ed312 6y agoThe new Kindle Oasis is incredibly fast on page turns - feels almost instant coming from a Paperwhite