<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:24 PM, geoffrey mendelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoffreymendelson@gmail.com" target="_blank">geoffreymendelson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On 1/9/2014 3:08 PM, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:<br>
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Thanks for your answer. When I posted a link to a matrix of all the current eink-based readers, I assumed it is obvious I want an e-ink based one. I'd think dedicated reader would be more energy/weight/price efficient than a general purpose tablet, but anything with e-ink will do! Also, as I had stated, I'm not interested in buying DRM books anyway...<br>
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Not really. You can buy an active display android tablet for about the same money. E-ink displays are more energy efficient, but slow. You end up hitting the next button before you finish a page in the hope that it starts to refresh before you get to the last word in the page and finishes as you do.<br>
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They also suck for displaying material that was originally color or scanned material. I have many books that were scanned and they are unreadable on an e-ink display,<br>
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E-ink was an idea which came and went.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not true at all. e-Ink continues to be developed and now is much quicker then it used to be. Many vendors are developing new e-ink platforms.</div>
<div>I can reveal that I am working with one company on a better version of their system that will be sold in Israel when it is done. It is based on Android, will be able to read mostly EPUB but also PDF.</div>
<div>The same company is also developing a cellular phone with eInk touch display.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Ori Idan</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>