Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data

Re:Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data by vaylian on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @10:13AM (#24271526)

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.

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Re:Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data by ryzvonusef on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @10:23AM (#24271625)

> 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

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Re:Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data by vaylian on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:23PM (#24274350)

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.

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Re:Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data by rtkwe on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:14AM (#24272175)

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.

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Re:Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data by ed312 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:55PM (#24274022)

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

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