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Originally Posted by Burninator
That's interesting. One of my concerns is the eyestrain from reading on a screen. I'm not really concerned about eyestrain in general from looking at a monitor, I sit in front of one for 9 hours a day at work and I go home and either look at the TV or my computer. But there is still something about reading on an LCD monitor long term that is not as good as real paper (in my limited experience).
Now I haven't read a book on a monitor with the quality of the iPad on a software format designed to mimic a book. I also haven't read anything with e-ink either. So I'm not married to e-ink, but they have ran a good campaign smearing LCD and it's not without cause in most cases. But if Apple has developed a product that can combat eye strain when reading (remains to be seen) and has a killer battery, I don't see why anyone would buy a Kindle anymore.
I don't think I would buy one of these before I could hold it in my hands and try reading a book on it. Or if the reviews come in and people love it for reading and don't experience eye strain.
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Eye strain could come from this device if there is a lot of reflected light coming off the glass screen. But as you said, most people spend a lot of time in front of a backlit display either watching TV or working at a computer. I also can guarantee that a lot of people reading books or from an e-ink screen aren't using adequate lighting and getting eye strain anyways.
One thing to remember about the books in Canada is that we have different publishers for titles than they do in the US so Apple will have to make all new deals for the same books.