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The Next Generation of Color Screens for E-Book Readers?

February 19, 2010

Qualcomm’s new Marisol display technology is quite impressive. It has vibrant color, longer battery life than e-ink screens, supports video, works in the sunlight, is not backlit, and is arriving at least a couple years ahead of the conventional wisdom on when e-ink could go color.

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Retraining My Brain to Read a Book, Not a Kindle

January 13, 2010

Earlier this week I read a “real” book for the first time since I got my Kindle last year. It was interesting to see how much my brain had retrained itself to the Kindle.

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Jeff Bezos On All Things Kindle

December 29, 2009

Newsweek recently published a great interview with Jeff Bezos in which he talks about the Kindle’s success, Amazon’s business philosophy, how Kindle fits with the rumored Apple tablet, and more. I could have easily plucked a half dozen quotes from it. You should definitely check it out.

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Marco Arment on Grayscale vs. Color Ebook Screens

December 24, 2009

Marco Arment has a great post on why for the typical user of an e-book reader, improving the rendering of grayscale on e-ink screens is far more important than developing color e-ink technology.

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