The DX is black and white-just with a bigger screen. E-ink seems to be the best for long-term reading because (A.) it's easy on the eyes and (B.) it requires just a trickle of power from a battery. But to be feasible for textbooks, it has to support color.
China's Hanvon makes a color e-ink reader, but the technology is still very new. The colors aren't bright, and screen-draws are slow. Maybe in a year or two these will be ready for prime time. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 6:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Apple newbie - iPad remote access to server shares Look again on Amazon I was told what I was looking at was a color Kindle they are larger than the B/W Kindle colors looked good but like I said that is all the look I got at it. I think this is what I was looking at. http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-Reading-Display-Generation/dp/B002GYWHSQ/ref=sa_menu_kdx23. It does not say one way or the other. Maybe I was told wrong! I sure wish the kids would have let me have a better look at it. Jon Harris On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:41 AM, John Hornbuckle <john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us<mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us>> wrote: There's no color Kindle, as far as I know. I think there's a color Nook, but it doesn't use e-ink-so it's a backlit display, and much lower battery life. E-ink is very easy on the eyes. My wife has a Kindle, and loves it. It runs forever on a charge, and is easy to read-including in bright sunlight. There's no color, though. That's fine for reading novels and such, but for kids' textbooks color is a must. John From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com<mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com>] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 8:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Apple newbie - iPad remote access to server shares John, do you know if anyone is looking at either the nook or kindle color e-ink devices? I just saw my first kindle one this weekend and while the kids that had it were happy as a clam with what it could do I could not tell, the kids would not share with me, if e-books looked that much better or not. Jon ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
