Comments on: Pixel Qi vs. the Kindle: Which is the better display for YOUR e-booking? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/pixel-qi-vs-the-kindle-which-is-the-better-display-for-your-e-booking/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:56:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/pixel-qi-vs-the-kindle-which-is-the-better-display-for-your-e-booking/comment-page-1/#comment-1149593 David Rothman Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:46 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/11/22/pixel-qi-vs-the-kindle-which-is-the-better-display-for-your-e-booking/#comment-1149593 Thanks, Bill. Since you're a veteran e-book researcher, it would be great if you shared a few more details in areas such as character sharpness and text-background contrast---especially in the power-saving e-book mode. How is the contrast of the e-book mode compared to the OLPC XO machines? I'm hardly surprised that "it looked pretty darn good." Thanks, David Thanks, Bill. Since you’re a veteran e-book researcher, it would be great if you shared a few more details in areas such as character sharpness and text-background contrast—especially in the power-saving e-book mode. How is the contrast of the e-book mode compared to the OLPC XO machines?

I’m hardly surprised that “it looked pretty darn good.”

Thanks,
David

]]> By: Bill Janssen http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/pixel-qi-vs-the-kindle-which-is-the-better-display-for-your-e-booking/comment-page-1/#comment-1149564 Bill Janssen Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:01:30 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/11/22/pixel-qi-vs-the-kindle-which-is-the-better-display-for-your-e-booking/#comment-1149564 David, I saw the Pixel Qi screen in person in October, and it looked pretty darn good. David, I saw the Pixel Qi screen in person in October, and it looked pretty darn good.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/pixel-qi-vs-the-kindle-which-is-the-better-display-for-your-e-booking/comment-page-1/#comment-1149560 David Rothman Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:05:36 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/11/22/pixel-qi-vs-the-kindle-which-is-the-better-display-for-your-e-booking/#comment-1149560 Amen about the column issue, Dan! E Ink machines, too, not just Pixel Qi, can display multiple columns (and good on the Times for caring about this!). But Pixel Qi right now can do a lot more if you go by the specs. I've asked to be put on the list to see the tech in person, although I may already have come close as the past owner of an OLPC laptop. Thanks. David Amen about the column issue, Dan! E Ink machines, too, not just Pixel Qi, can display multiple columns (and good on the Times for caring about this!). But Pixel Qi right now can do a lot more if you go by the specs. I’ve asked to be put on the list to see the tech in person, although I may already have come close as the past owner of an OLPC laptop. Thanks. David

]]> By: Dan E. Bloom http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/pixel-qi-vs-the-kindle-which-is-the-better-display-for-your-e-booking/comment-page-1/#comment-1149556 Dan E. Bloom Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:19:41 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/11/22/pixel-qi-vs-the-kindle-which-is-the-better-display-for-your-e-booking/#comment-1149556 david, what i like about the photo of the Pixel Q, which by the way, also has big office in Taipei, I know John, her husband, is the 3-column format. What i really wish the Internet would do is give us readable pages that were in 3 column or 4 column formats like newspapers and magazines do. Bill Hill, former Microsoft guru now surfing in Hawaii forever, has said that 16 years ago the internet took a wrong turn by giving us scolling pagaination, long huge screens with WIDE WIDE margins, so there are about 40 words to a line, much too long for the human eye, and a 3 column format, with 10 words to a line, is what the human eye likes. i hope PIXEL Q does this. Bill Hill says the Internet masters took a wrong turn 16 years ago, but it can still be fixed. He is working on it, too. Long live the 3 column, and 4 column format....that is what READING should be. david, what i like about the photo of the Pixel Q, which by the way, also has big office in Taipei, I know John, her husband, is the 3-column format. What i really wish the Internet would do is give us readable pages that were in 3 column or 4 column formats like newspapers and magazines do. Bill Hill, former Microsoft guru now surfing in Hawaii forever, has said that 16 years ago the internet took a wrong turn by giving us scolling pagaination, long huge screens with WIDE WIDE margins, so there are about 40 words to a line, much too long for the human eye, and a 3 column format, with 10 words to a line, is what the human eye likes. i hope PIXEL Q does this. Bill Hill says the Internet masters took a wrong turn 16 years ago, but it can still be fixed. He is working on it, too. Long live the 3 column, and 4 column format….that is what READING should be.

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