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Ebooks with illustrations/graphs? Text books and graphic novels come to mind.

• kgwxd 6y ago
  At 31.2" though?
  • rodgerd 6y ago
    For some specialized uses, sure: think about researchers wanting to look at illuminated manuscripts, especially wanting to see marginalia and the like. A large, low-eyestrain way of seeing high-quality scans would be very handy.
    • thaumasiotes 6y ago
      I have Moss Roberts' translation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms scanned to PDF. ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/0520224787/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/0520224787/ ) The product page doesn't advertise it, but the books are huge. I can't actually read my PDFs because my kindle display is much smaller than that. And yet the market for a reader with a bigger screen seems to be negligible. :(
    • ComputerGuru 6y ago
      There’s a lot of potential but pretty much all use cases are limited each in their own way by the current specification shortcomings. Eg for the case you mention, the display ppi is simply nowhere near good enough for minute study of details.
  • dragonwriter 6y ago
    That's, what, about 4-up letter pages? Yeah, I can see that being useful. Can't get to the page; I assume the price is ridiculous though.
    • pmontra 6y ago
      $2,300.00
• crazygringo 6y ago
  But that's my point -- the contrast for regular black and white text is so much worse with color eInk than it is for regular black-and-white eInk. It seems like a terrible tradeoff to make, for colors that are still terrible. Reading a graphic novel on a color e-ink reader will be so washed out... if you really want the color, it seems like you still have to just read it on an iPad etc.
• johnisgood 6y ago
  Most of my medical books would be better with a color E-ink. In fact, I do not even have medical books on my current E-book reader.