Page turns are fast and unobtrusive, thanks to the Aura HD's caching ability that reduces full - screen, all - black E
Ink page refreshes to every six page turns.
Not exact matches
Page refresh is sluggish, as in all other E
Ink displays.
The electronic
ink technology is passive, looks good as paper, and only uses power when
refreshing, so a single battery charge'll last 7,500
page turns.
What's good about Feedly's layout is you only have to swipe once to scroll through the list of articles to advance
pages, which makes things easier with the way E
Ink refreshes.
The E
Ink display took a second or two to
refresh when we scrolled out of the visible area or moved to a new
page.
Normally I don't like this setting on E
Ink because it causes more ghosting and afterimages, but the screen
refreshes fully on the InkBook when using inverted text so that's not a problem — every
page looks clear.
Once turns the
page and both E
Ink panels are
refreshed at once.
The preinstalled reading apps have all been optimized for E
Ink and have the option to customize the
page refresh settings.
The E
Ink display itself consumes very little power, with power only really needed for
page refreshes.
But the new generation of E
Ink screens are said to potentially be able to read up to 100
pages without having to
refresh the entire screen.
I read on their website that their use of the latest e
ink technology avoids the flashes and the annoying
refreshing of the
pages, and somewhere else I read that the flashes only appear every chapter, 100
pages or so (as opposed to 6
pages of the kindle).
Even something as simple as turning
pages with the Android app is funky because the E
Ink doesn't
refresh properly so the text is rough and less defined that it should be.
The only reason I haven't purchased an eReader for personal use yet is because I absolutely despise the
refresh flicker that E
Ink technology typically exhibits when you advance to the next
page.
Interestingly, Kobo says they've been working with E
Ink to reduce how often the
page needs to
refresh, thus lessening the frequency of
page refreshes on the Aura's screen, but they are not using E
Ink's new upcoming screen tech that is supposed to be an upgrade from Pearl.
Its Pearl E
Ink touchscreen display meant I didn't have the extra bulk of a physical keyboard, and also that the
pages refreshed less often — an annoyance that has delayed my personal entry into the eReader market.
In addition to better contrast, Carta displays are specifically tuned for reading applications supporting «E
Ink Regal waveform technology», which is designed to dramatically reduce the need for full
page refresh between
page turns.
The Kobo Touch has a 6 - inch E
Ink Pearl screen with infrared touch, 1 GB of usable memory, an SD card slot, web browser, notes, highlights, bookmarks, partial
page refresh, dictionary look up, social network sharing, reading awards, and it supports Adobe DRM for ePub and PDF as well HTML, TXT, RTF, CBZ, CBR, MOBI, and PRC formats.
I get that it's a big screen and they're trying to conserve as much battery life as possible and all that, but consumers have just started getting used to E
Ink screens in their products now that the
refresh rate is comparable to a
page turn in a book.
Like their monochrome brethren, color E
Ink screens are very energy efficient because power isn't needed to maintain the image on the screen, just when turning
pages and
refreshing the screen.
The e-reader still does a full
refresh once every sixth
page, but by performing what appears to be a fast dissolve between
pages, B&N lets you effectively move ahead through dozens of
pages, while mitigating the annoying
page - flashing effect long associated with E
Ink.
The new E
Ink Carta technology delivers a 50 % increase in contrast over Pearl E
Ink, 20 % less reflections, Carta technology is now in the newest Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 6» e-reader, and E
Ink also shows the new Regal Wave Form technology which removes the need for full
page refreshes allowing for faster
refreshes for up to a hundred
page turns when reading.
It retained the 6 - inch E
Ink display, however, improving the technology for faster
page turns and better
refreshing, while moving from the original 4 shades of grey to 16.
In the real world, the E
Ink display consumes minimal power, as power is only needed when the
page refreshes, so if you don't need the illumination when reading in well - lit conditions and you don't need to be connected then you'll save battery plenty of battery life.
I assume you are referring to the
page refresh on E
Ink ereaders when the screen momentarily turns black when
refreshing the
page?