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E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space - Liliputing (liliputing.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

and generally aren’t very useful for high-motion graphics like videos or games.

I do like the fact that my e-reader is just for reading books without distractions. Thats also kinda the point of e-ink, to be as close to paper as possible and make digital reading better. I don't see the need yet for a paper like screen to animate video because it won't be as good as a normal screen. I'll prefer specialized screens over a catch-all type any day.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mostly agree, but it would be nice if it was a bit faster to be able to use it for web browsing. I still like reading long form articles and such but navigating and scrolling isn't very viable yet on e-readers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

EinkBro lets you treat sites (or the reader mode) like pages and turn them accordingly. My boox go color 7 also has page turn buttons, and allows you to configure them to scroll x distance on a per app basis, which works like a page turn on apps that only allow scrolling. It makes reading articles with omnivore work pretty well. Example And switching to speed mode

I'm not sure if you can easily make the same tweaks on the other Boox devices or using volume buttons on other Android devices or whatever, but there are ways around it.

I definitely do agree with you that the capability of faster refresh would be nice to have, but right now isn't bad.