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Digital books (on e-paper anyway) cannot yet handle the range of colors paper can. OLED can do this much better than paper but it also requires much more energy
by dreamcompiler 5y ago
Digital books (on e-paper anyway) cannot yet handle the range of colors paper can. OLED can do this much better than paper but it also requires much more energy than e-paper.
Long term I wonder how long digital books will last. After the apocalypse paper books will still be readable but will we have the devices, the batteries, the Internet-connected DRM systems etc to read digital books?
All that said I still buy mostly e-books when color doesn't matter. I used to own a printing business, so I feel some nostalgia about paper books, but the sheer tonnage of paper books in my house is threatening to condense into a mini black hole, so e-books it is for me from now on.