Re: Re: The Apple iPad and the future of e-ink ebook readers

From: "Dan Poynter" 
> because the backlit screen makes it hard on the eyes.
........
Could it be that those repeating this drivel have not tried reading on a
screen?

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Dan,

;-)  I'm not sure what a monitor is, then, if it is not a screen...

Seriously, I am not sure that it is drivel. I think it has to do with textures more than light, and that little problem called individuality! I find screens troublesome, for example, and I have problems with light and phasing. Others have such problems too.

Those who call for scientific proof are playing a naughty little trick. So far as I know there is no research, and even if there was it would need to be thoroughly analysed for methodology, size of study and so on. Even then any such scientific conclusion needs to be replicated and tested against other theories before it has even started down the road of being a 'scientifically verified fact'.

There is a known difference between backlit screens and paper, and I imagine e-ink or e-paper would classify between them. This shows up in actual colour perceptions; since these are to do with wavelengths there may in fact be a possibility that backlit screens are more tiring.

I find in a lot of arguments about publishing as a business that people tend to extrapolate their own experience, rather than consider how much variation there is. I'm sure you wouldn't do that over screen reading. ;-) But have you?

Joseph

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