On: Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of dat...

[vaylian]

eInk is a lot nicer for reading books than LCD screens.

The downside is that eInk currently only supports black-and-white and turning pages is roughly only as fast as turning the page of a book.

Also, battery life is counted in days (and sometimes weeks) and not in hours.

[ryzvonusef → vaylian]

> The downside is that eInk currently only supports black-and-white

E-ink Kaleido with 4096 colors at 100 ppi are available commercially since past few weeks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqiCOheb1jo

[vaylian → ryzvonusef]

Thank you! I did not know about this. This is a really cool development. Even if the saturation (as mentioned by rtkwe) is not the greatest, this is a big step towards reading more analytical texts with colored graphs.

[rtkwe → ryzvonusef]

Those are really neat, the big issue is they’re still pretty low saturation so the images don’t look as good as an actual LED/LCD screen.

[ed312 → vaylian]

The new Kindle Oasis is incredibly fast on page turns - feels almost instant coming from a Paperwhite