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I was surprised to read that they'd both tried and discarded an e-reader due to its lack of resolution: I owned a Kindle ~5 years ago and felt like the 'reading
by benjaminpv 5y ago
I was surprised to read that they'd both tried and discarded an e-reader due to its lack of resolution: I owned a Kindle ~5 years ago and felt like the 'reading ergonomics' were terrific and have to imagine they're even better now.
If anything, my main complaint was that the process of getting the content I wanted to read on to the thing was the problem: no matter what software or special formatting I used PDFs were rendered terribly and the steps involved in using that 'send an article to your Kindle' really cut into my desire to take an article I saw on my normal computer and read it over there.
I know they've got large, monitor-sized eInk displays now so I think the only thing standing between me and my ideal reader is a more sophisticated way to reformat/reflow PDFs (I vaguely recall Adobe saying they were going to make this a component of their new reader?) and an easy way to 'cast' pages to it that performs the same ad-stripping and reformatting that's mentioned in the article.
- gnicholas 5y agoI recently tried out my wife's Kindle Paperwhite and was surprised how lousy the resolution is. I would have believed it was from 5-10 years ago, but it is less than a year old.
- BeetleB 5y ago> I was surprised to read that they'd both tried and discarded an e-reader due to its lack of resolution: I owned a Kindle ~5 years ago and felt like the 'reading ergonomics' were terrific and have to imagine they're even better now. How does that Kindle compare with laser printer paper? I get 600 dpi on the normal setting and the difference between it and an ereader is very noticeable. Also bigger screens tend to have lower DPI. 6in screens are too small for me.