I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.
I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.
Except for the screen
There too. Low contrast and less bright than b/w e-paper and still suck more power. AMOLED is better for the eyes, even though it glows.
Eink is just better for reading though
If you’re reading then colour doesn’t matter much. For comics I’d probably get a tablet.
Color is very useful for highlights, taking notes and reading comics, its fine if its not for you but its very interesting for me
Highlighting, taking notes, comics all seem different from just reading
Okay, eink is really really good at two things: reading and taking notes/drawing.
Comics are a form of reading (especially french comics i read, theyre 50% text).
You highlight parts of books.
And for taking notes, say in class, is much nicer when you have color avilable
Why do you say that amoled is bezter for the eyes? Is that also true for b/w e-ink?
No, i think e-ink has it’s place. But color e-ink is currently too much a tradeoff in everything else e-ink is strong, imo.
Oh, OK. I just assumed color e-ink was just like bw e-ink but with colors and was similar in other aspects
How so? Color eink has pretty much zero tradeoffs as far as i can tell, other than price.
Weak colors, so dark that you constantly need backlight…
Weak colors yes, but normal eink has no colors, and what do you mean by “so dark that you constantly need backlight…”?
Look for comparison videos between the color e-ink technologies.
Especially the screen, unless your only plans for the device involve lots and lots of static text. eInk has improved tremendously over recent years, but it still has a long way to go before it starts replacing LCDs and OLEDs.
I really don’t think it’s even trying to fill the same niche. No eReader is attempting to sell you Netflix. It’s just an entirely different device.