Guardsman Bass wrote:I've never suffered more eye strain reading my e-ink Kindle than I have from reading any physical book for a long period of time. I've actually read 6-7 hours at a time with my Kindle without eye strain, which is not the case when I've been reading on an LCD screen.
Alyeska wrote:Only LCD can cause eye strain. Its from two factors. Screen refresh, but mostly being backlit. E-ink displays have no actual refresh. It is a true static image on the screen. They also require absolutely no backlight to see. E-ink literally causes no eye strain of any sort. It consumes zero power to display the screen and only consumes power to change the screen (aka turning the page). And because of how it displays it requires absolutely no backlit setup to read. With no backlight, they do not create any eyestrain from the lighting setup either. LCD based E-Readers will cause eye strain (like the iPad or the Nook). E-ink readers will not cause eye strain. There is a small exception where they might have a poor e-ink display that renders text fuzzy, but they are already on the 3rd and 4th generation e-ink devices right now and they are crystal clear. I can honestly say my Kindle is like reading news print or text directly from a book. It looks exactly like your reading off paper. It really does.
Thank you both. You've managed to be more informative unprompted in one post than Stark has, prompted across 4 posts.
Well, I wouldn't really hold that against it in comparison to books. Besides, it's not as if trying to read off any LCD screen in the dark isn't suicide for my eyes anyway.If the room is dark, its impossible to read because the device itself provides absolutely no light.
I should probably emphasize that yes, I do buy used books on Amazon, rather than new, so that's why getting digital books would be more expensive for me.As long as we're throwing down anecdotes, I've rarely seen a e-book that was more expensive than a new physical copy from Amazon, and virtually never one that was drastically more expensive than a physical copy unless we're counting used copies sold from a third seller through Amazon Marketplace.
If in doubt, someone in London must be at fault.
Unfortunately alot of the business have closed down recently, and the main cause is often cited as 'rent too high' Normally you would get a reason of 'people arnt buying anything' We have had some town centre shops empty for almost three years now, in the middle of a town that that has tens of thousands of tourists hanging around.
