Book Thread: VGChartz gotta start readin'!

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Baalzamon said:

twesterm said:

There are two types of nooks: the regular nook and the nook Color.

The nook uses the eInk just like the Kindle and the nook Color is more like an iPad (and even becomes a competent tablet when jailbroken).  For anyone that has never seen eInk, go to Barne's and Noble now and look at their eInk nooks.  I'm not saying buy a nook if you want an eReader, just look at the eInk.  It's pretty amazing.  It looks exactly like paper and there's no eye strain what-so-ever.  The only issue is if there's a light shining directly on it, there can be a small glare.

The nook Color uses a touch screen similar to the iPad and I was worried about eye strain on that too but apparently it's not bad.  My wife has been using it and she has had no complaints.  I haven't used it for long periods of time so I can't speak anything about it.

So if we use a bright headlight to read at night rather than a lamp, it would probably glare pretty badly?

I haven't had any glare issue with my kindle but I haven't either tried to use a headlight....

I have read outside in the summer with the sun up and going strong and didn't experience any issue...