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People may think they want colour, but I'm convinced it's not as much as they don't want something resembling a glaring low grade android device, propped up on

by hanoz 6y ago

People may think they want colour, but I'm convinced it's not as much as they don't want something resembling a glaring low grade android device, propped up on a bookshelf, with a usb power lead trailing out of it to the nearest socket. A nice sharp grayscale, hang and forget (maybe on an actual wall), with the e-paper aesthetic, is going to beat this hands down.

TylerE 6y ago
Even monochrome ink is pretty lousy without a strong backlight.
- sammorrowdrums 6y ago
  I'd disagree entirely. As mentioned in my other comment, I have an e-ink tablet on a stand on my desk[1], and I think it looks stunning, especially contrast wise. It has that "real physical object" kind of aesthetic, that is virtually irreplaceable if you want a thing of beauty. It doesn't glow in low light, and it's only increasingly visible as Ambient light gets brighter. Those are features for a static thing to look at in my book. https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/jem97h/most_of_my_joy_from_the_lumi_has_come_from/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/jem97h/most_of_m...
  - TylerE 6y ago
    I mean, if you don't care about your "white" being closer to a dull orange and having, typically, 4 shades of grey, I guess. eInk is great for text, but lousy for anything even resembling art.
    - sammorrowdrums 6y ago
      That orange glow was actually terrible white balance because of the context I took the photos. I Should have corrected those pictures, that orangy hue is not how it looks. And if cartoons, graphic novel panels, newspapers rendered on e-ink don't seem like "anything even resembling art" to you that's fine. It's the most subjective thing in the world, but there are a lot of people who do. My photos were not meant to be representative of the peak of how good the screen can look, else I'd have taken them again. [edit: typo]

by hanoz 6y ago

TylerE 6y ago

Even monochrome ink is pretty lousy without a strong backlight.

sammorrowdrums 6y ago
I'd disagree entirely. As mentioned in my other comment, I have an e-ink tablet on a stand on my desk[1], and I think it looks stunning, especially contrast wise. It has that "real physical object" kind of aesthetic, that is virtually irreplaceable if you want a thing of beauty. It doesn't glow in low light, and it's only increasingly visible as Ambient light gets brighter. Those are features for a static thing to look at in my book. https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/jem97h/most_of_my_joy_from_the_lumi_has_come_from/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/jem97h/most_of_m...
- TylerE 6y ago
  I mean, if you don't care about your "white" being closer to a dull orange and having, typically, 4 shades of grey, I guess. eInk is great for text, but lousy for anything even resembling art.
  - sammorrowdrums 6y ago
    That orange glow was actually terrible white balance because of the context I took the photos. I Should have corrected those pictures, that orangy hue is not how it looks. And if cartoons, graphic novel panels, newspapers rendered on e-ink don't seem like "anything even resembling art" to you that's fine. It's the most subjective thing in the world, but there are a lot of people who do. My photos were not meant to be representative of the peak of how good the screen can look, else I'd have taken them again. [edit: typo]