To be pedantic, LCD is a family of technology that includes transmissive flavors that require backlighting, and reflective, which does not.
That having been said, the Kindle is not only reflective, it's E-ink is a different underlying technology that gives it a different feel than even reflective LCD... I find white-background backlit LCD displays the least comfortable to read for extended periods. Inverting the background colors helps tremendously. Reflective LCD is easier on the eyes yet, provided you have the correct lighting conditions. I've not used the Kindle extensively, but my impression is that one of the chief advantages of the E-ink they use is that it's not a light-polarization type scheme and it's reasonably high resolution... -sc From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 6:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: trade publications - toss or archive? Kindle has no backlight. It's a completely different experience than reading an LCD. ________________________________ From: "Maglinger, Paul" <pmaglin...@scvl.com> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:20:18 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: RE: trade publications - toss or archive? I can't read much online without my eyes getting strained. Something about the backlight, I think. Short reads are okay, but I don't think I could make it through The Foundation Trilogy online or on a Kindle. From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 4:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: trade publications - toss or archive? +100 I'm afraid that we're seeing the end of paper bound trade pubs as we know it. Call me old fashioned, but I think it is sooooooo much easier to thumb through a book or magazine sometimes than to search online. And then there's also the concern of whether the content has been tampered with or not. Hard to tamper with a physical copy once it has been printed and bound... Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com <BLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> www.eaglemds.com <BLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/> ________________________________ From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: trade publications - toss or archive? I'm pretty disappointed it went digital. I'd definitely be willing to pay for it, but they gave out so many free subscriptions, I think it just became a casualty. From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: trade publications - toss or archive? I'm curious - a few mentioned keeping their old TechNet magazines. Does everyone else keep up with that publication since it went digital only? I used to look forward to it, but have to admit I haven't looked at it since it stopped coming in a print version. ________________________________ From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 4:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: trade publications - toss or archive? Aside from that...the nagging thing in my mind is the conspiracy theory voice that says, if you have it in print, you can prove it. If it is online...well, it can be changed... :-) Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com <BLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> www.eaglemds.com <BLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/> ________________________________ From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 4:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: trade publications - toss or archive? True - that's what I keep thinking, maybe all of this is right at our fingertips online for however long we will need it, but then the pack rat comes back and whispers, you know, you may need this little book or that little article and it won't be out there... ________________________________ From: Ben Schorr <b...@rolandschorr.com> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Thu, October 28, 2010 3:10:39 PM Subject: RE: trade publications - toss or archive? I had that situation. Then my wife and I moved to a new house and I took the opportunity to donate most of them to the local public library. I realized that I'd rarely opened any of those books in the previous two years (Google is so much easier). Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer ______________________________________________ Roland Schorr & Tower www.rolandschorr.com <http://www.rolandschorr.com/> b...@rolandschorr.com <mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bschorr <http://www.twitter.com/bschorr> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rolandschorr <http://www.facebook.com/rolandschorr> From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 13:03 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: trade publications - toss or archive? In my office at home, I had a bookshelf full of IT books dating back to Windows 3.1, etc. The bookshelf got full. So I was able to come up with one solution... Get another bookshelf ;-) One of these days, I will toss some of them. From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: trade publications - toss or archive? I still have the Windows IT Pro mags too. I get rid of the CIO, Information week, etc. type pubs. I do have about 30 years of Model Railroading mags that I won't get rid of :) My other bad habit is keeping those thick Software books like NT 4.0 Networking, SMS Admin Scripting, Teach yourself C in 21 days, etc. That's where I should clean house... Don K ________________________________ From: Webster <carlwebs...@gmail.com> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Thu, October 28, 2010 12:45:57 PM Subject: RE: trade publications - toss or archive? I still keep my TechNet and Windows IT Pro mags. I threw out all the other mags I had dating back to 1984. I had to get permission from my office landlord to throw them all away because I filled up the dumpster for the building! City recycling didn't want that much paper. Webster From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Subject: OT: trade publications - toss or archive? Ok, so I'll let you in on a little secret. I'm a pack rat. I'm trying to change....really. I've got a ton of trade publications, dating back years: Information Week CIO Decisions Technet Windows IT Pro Storage Information Security And I'm sure a few others. For those of you that subscribe to and read these magazines, do you see ANY value in keeping them for any length of time after you've skimmed/read them? 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