31.2˝ Color EPaper Display

Re:31.2˝ Color EPaper Display by ralmidani on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:00PM (#26171699)

If you're considering E-Ink for environmental/ethical reasons, keep in mind that electricity may eventually come from renewable resources, while materials that go into electronics like E-Ink devices and tablets are definitely finite (and people die every day in Africa because of that). If you need to reduce eye strain and headaches because you read a lot, that's another story (blue light filtering glasses help, BTW). But if you already have a decent tablet, you're not doing the planet or anyone else a favor when you also buy an E-Ink device.

Edit: subaquamille raises great points about battery life and obsolescence which strengthen the argument for E-Ink.

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Re:31.2˝ Color EPaper Display by bogwog on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:28PM (#26172031)

Do people really think E-ink is environmentally friendly? I've never heard that angle before. The appeal of E-ink style displays always seemed to me to be the battery life and visibility in sunlight.

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Re:31.2˝ Color EPaper Display by kgwxd on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:34PM (#26172091)

Is it wrong to associate low energy consumption with environmentally friendly? I don't follow e-ink news much, but I feel I've seen at least that angle somewhere.

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Re:31.2˝ Color EPaper Display by subaquamille on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:12PM (#26171853)

Consider also batterie life and how it's affected by load cycle numbers: ablets get charged one every second day and e-ink devices once a month. Consider also technologie obsolecsence: estimate the times it will take in 10 years for your devices to open a book, change pages, mark highlights. I hardly open a pdf now on my iPad mini and my e-ink device from the same period seems to do the same operation at lighting speed.

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Re:31.2˝ Color EPaper Display by ralmidani on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:21PM (#26171956)

I've never owned an E-Ink device, and didn't know they outlived tablets by such a wide margin. That's a sizable plus in the E-Ink column.

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Re:31.2˝ Color EPaper Display by input_sh on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:52PM (#26172293)

I mean there's no real innovation that will make your device anywhere near obsolete in a few years. My Paperwhite from 2015 is pretty identical to ones sold now, and unlike with phones and tablets, software support is still there. So unless you break it, it's probably gonna outlive your phone/tablet/laptop. Mine for sure did.

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Re:31.2˝ Color EPaper Display by robinsoh on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:50PM (#26175487)

> My Paperwhite from 2015 is pretty identical to ones sold now

Yes, you're right if you're looking at update time of the display, which I have. There's pretty much no improvement. That's due to the physics of pigment particles. I don't see a way for them to improve that. They have improved contrast ratios. The whites of their carter displays are much better than the previous gen pearl and vizplex before that.

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Re:31.2˝ Color EPaper Display by yayadarsh on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:03PM (#26171747)

Consumption decisions made by individuals will never solve this problem, as it is more of a problem with labor/industrial regulation and corporate governance.

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Re:31.2˝ Color EPaper Display by ymbeld on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:17PM (#26171902)

Pretty much correct. It’s a bit ridiculous that high-tech gadgets (rare earth metals and all that) are sometimes considered to be environmentally friendly. Still though, consumption choices will ultimately never save the environment.

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