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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by ghaff on Friday April 10, 2020 @09:18AM (#22832689)
And even E Ink Kindle is a bit niche. It's great for reading flowing text as in most fiction. However, for things with a lot of graphics/photographs a tablet or even a phone tends to be a lot better. To say nothing of all the other things you can do with a tablet. As a result, when I travel, I almost never take my Kindle because a tablet is so much more versatile.
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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by _ph_ on Friday April 10, 2020 @09:33AM (#22832809)
Right. E-ink ist really only for mostly static display. Thats why I think that for proper pdf-reading you would need an e-ink reader which can display the whole page at its original size, so roughly A4 sized. Even the 12.9" iPad Pro is a bit small for that, but at least it can quickly zoom and scroll.
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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by catalogia on Friday April 10, 2020 @11:07AM (#22833762)
There was the Kindle DX which was 12.6" on the diagonal IIRC. I guess that's still a bit too small though, and the last model of that came out a decade ago.. I'm guessing it didn't sell well because I've never seen anybody using one.
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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by ajford on Friday April 10, 2020 @12:48PM (#22834802)
I knew some professors in college that had the DX and that was exactly why they used it. They could download a bunch of newly published papers/references frequently and only have to carry the DX.

You'd see them roaming about the campus reading them. Eventually I think that swapped out for iPads since they could be used for non-paper things.

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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by pfortuny on Friday April 10, 2020 @02:50PM (#22836173)
Well, margins do not need to exist when reading on a tablet (unless for margin notes but these are usually scant). I have an iPad 2019 which I think is 10’3’’ and honestly, math papers (my area) are pretty much equal to the “real thing”.
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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by ghaff on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:20AM (#22833264)
Personally I'm fine with reading PDFs on the 11". I have a 12.9" I bought mostly as an experiment in creating videos. For drawing and so forth the larger screen is nice. But I find it's too big/heavy to read on.
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