The problem, is that Carta is over two years old and I think people want to see higher resolution screens and the true elimination
of full page refreshes.
The Cybook Odyssey can turn pages very quickly, but requires letting go
of the full page refresh.
Not exact matches
Consider using more than just a forward and back button by adding a
full suite
of navigation buttons to each
page of training material, including a home button, back / forward,
refresh, and even social media buttons to connect your learners with your brand online.
If you're planning to read news with it, then stick with your phone — unless you have the patience
of a saint, you're not going to like the slow
refresh rate when navigating apps and web
pages, and you're going to want to see photos in
full color instead if boring grayscale.
Hopefully they adopt either Regal or Carta, which dramatically eliminates the
full page refreshes that plagued the last few generations
of e-readers.
The biggest disadvantages
of this e-book reader are that you can see each pixel on the screen, you can see old image after
full page refresh and display is not so white as you can see above.
Now, this will also be fixed, which means less
full page refreshes because again, its now hardware based, instead
of software.
This is why its hard to play
full motion video on e-readers because
of the
page refresh issue, although companies are experimenting with making e-ink more robust such as Bookeen
This will allow for faster
page turns and a
full page refresh occurring every chapter, instead
of the industry average
of every six
pages.
Most e-readers these days have a resolution
of 1440 × 1080 and 300 PPI, they also use E-ink CARTA, which results in lightning fast
page turns and hardly any
full page refreshes.
The latest readers have crisp, clear text, and employ caching schemes that almost never
refresh the
full page; most
of the time, only the letters fade out and back in again.
About the only noticeable difference in terms
of software is they made it so the screen never does a
full page refresh when reading.
With
full refresh off text and images are more prone to ghosting and afterimage effects where you can see faint indications
of the previous
pages.
The long
refresh times, the flashing, the bad contrast, all
of it turned me off
of the Sony product entirely, not to mention that by reducing the font size so you can read a
full page at a time, it's a strain on the eyes.
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.
Speed
of navigation has been increased at least in part by only doing a
full screen
refresh every 6
page turns.
Page refreshes were fast, at just under half a second each, and the Glo uses a similar caching system as the Kindle and Nook to reduce the frequency of dark, full - page flas
Page refreshes were fast, at just under half a second each, and the Glo uses a similar caching system as the Kindle and Nook to reduce the frequency
of dark,
full -
page flas
page flashes.
The
pages can be set to perform a
full refresh on each
page turn so there is no ghosting, but that involves a
full flash
of the screen before displaying the new text.
She says that Pixel Qi's displays are actually more readable than e-paper, with «excellent reflectance, high resolution for text, sunlight readability» — just as easy on the eyes when the backlighting is turned off, but with the key advantages
of full color and fast
refresh, for
pages that update as fast as video.
Faster
page refresh,
full -
page refresh once every sixth
page instead
of every
page (sometimes this results in ghosting, however).
If you are having problems with sections
of the text appearing less bold on parts
of the
page, try switching to
full page refresh.
As these devices only really draw power when they're
refreshing the screen, battery life is quoted as the number
of page turns they're capable
of from a
full charge.