• DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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    11 months ago

    Have you used an e-ink reader? The difference is remarkable. My Kobo battery died this morning, so I finished the book I was reading on my iPad, which was fine, but much less pleasant.

    Besides, it’s not just about the screen. The lack of distractions in a device that serves only one purpose is just as important to me.

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      11 months ago

      I’ve looked at e-ink readers multiple times since they first came out and they are all garbage. Low resolution, trash images, garbage refresh rates, slow page turns, awful white levels.

      I literally see no reason to ever use one over a nice phone or tablet display which, by the way, can be used for other content options besides text.

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        11 months ago

        Did you not see the bit about not actually wanting other content options? My Kobo is a single use device that is incredible at what I want it to do. I don’t care about refresh rates or resolution, literally all I care about is that it displays text comfortably without being glaring. And it does that.