On 1/9/2014 3:08 PM, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:
Thanks for your answer. When I posted a link to a matrix of all the
current eink-based readers, I assumed it is obvious I want an e-ink
based one. I'd think dedicated reader would be more
energy/weight/price efficient than a general purpose tablet, but
anything with e-ink will do! Also, as I had stated, I'm not interested
in buying DRM books anyway...
Not really. You can buy an active display android tablet for about the
same money. E-ink displays are more energy efficient, but slow. You end
up hitting the next button before you finish a page in the hope that it
starts to refresh before you get to the last word in the page and
finishes as you do.
They also suck for displaying material that was originally color or
scanned material. I have many books that were scanned and they are
unreadable on an e-ink display,
E-ink was an idea which came and went.
I also found that battery life was exaggerated by the vendors, being a
fast reader, I got about 6-8 hours of reading out of a charge. This was
both on an original Kindle (with a new battery and cellular turned off)
and an original nook with wifi turned off. They list some enormous
number of "page flips" which does not mean a lot, your average paperback
book needs 3-4 "flips" to cover one page of paper. An A4 page of 10
point type takes a lot of them.
As for DRM books, I figured that out, but they do drive the market.
People are no longer satisfied with only one vendor and want the ability
to buy them from many vendors which means a tablet, not a reader.
Just for the heck of it I looked up original iPads on Yad2. They go for
about 600 NIS, which makes it not worth buying a dedicated reader,
especially if you have to pay postage from the US and VAT.
Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
Jerusalem Israel.
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