Full
page refresh flashes more but it helps make the text appear sharper and darker.
Solid PDF experience Load in your own fonts Front light is really good HSIS scrolling is responsive Lots of font options Don't like
page refresh flashes?
Not exact matches
As for the
flash of e-ink being a «problem» all ereaders that use e-ink such as the Kindle have this «problem» but the Nook touch is the only one that has addressed it by only doing the total
refresh every 6
pages.
Hardware accelerated
page turns and
refreshes, and the horsepower needed to power modern browser tech so we can have proper HTML5,
Flash and PDF support.
Partial
page refresh that can't be turned off is only an advantage if black
flash bothers you more than fuzzy anti-aliasing.
One of the most exciting features is that it is said to have 80 % less
refresh rate when you turn the
pages, so you get less of the «
flashing «effect.
WAYYY better with
page refreshes (the
flashes).
So that occasional delay with a
refresh flash between some screns IMHO is a much better approach for the overall reading experience as opposed to it
flashing every so many
pages.
i wanted to know that will the kobo aura HD get the new features like low
flash screen technology (
page refresh after every 100
pages) and pinch to zoom with a software update or is it just for kobo aura.pls reply
While reading the
pages won't
refresh, so you don't get that annoying
refresh flash every six
pages or whatever.
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).
so it caches them and when you switch screens to either go to the home
page or a settings option or shopping that's when the
refresh happens So depending on how many
pages you have cached generally determines the amount of
refresh flash and quickness to other screen options, like shopping or readouts or wherever else you are going.
The new Kindles have a «black
flash» screen
refresh each six
pages, instead of every
page.
Page refreshes — when the screen
flashes black — occur after every six
pages.
Plus certain types of content like PDFs and comics will
flash with every
page turn even if you have the
page refresh setting turned off.
A full
refresh — the black
flash that's an ereader staple — happens at each
page turn with the PRS - T1 and
page turns aren't instant, but it's among the quickest around and on - par with the keyboard» ed Kindle.
Both new models incorporate a trick used on the new Nook Touch: it only
refreshes the e-Ink screen (which causes a brief black - on - white
flash) every 6
page turns instead of each time.
But it's still expensive to manufacture, only available in black and white, and suffers from slow screen
refresh rates which affect things like scrolling and video (not possible currently), and leads to the annoying
flash seen when turning
pages on ebook readers.
Black
page refreshes have been eliminated and there's now no full -
page flashing when turning
pages.
On the other hand,
page refreshes are quick and painless, though you'll see dark full -
page flashes after every six turns.
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.
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.
A new feature with the Kobo Touch is the ability to set how often you want full -
page refresh, the black
flash when turning
pages.
For basic interactions like navigating the UI, swiping
pages, and rotating the screen, and even typing, it's just a little slower than using a regular touchscreen, other than a quick
flash of black when the Kindle needs to
refresh the entire panel.
Amazon, like Barnes & Noble, is continually tweaking the performance of its e-readers to improve battery life, make accessing and downloading e-books easier and faster, and speed up
page turns slightly with less
flashing (e-ink readers used to have to
refresh the screen with each
page turn but now the screen
flashes only every five to six
pages with the Kindle and Nook Touch).
It used to be that the display had to
refresh every 5 or 6
page turns but with the Aura, you rarely see the screen
flash.
This means that if you don't like the black
flash when turning
pages you can turn it off or set it to
refresh once every 3, 5, or 10
pages.
While those
flashes still exist, user settings now give the option to have them happen once every five to six
page turns, rather than every time a
page is
refreshed.
Page refreshes — when you see dark full - page flashes after every six turns — are qu
Page refreshes — when you see dark full -
page flashes after every six turns — are qu
page flashes after every six turns — are quick.
The screen also no longer has to
refresh every time you turn the
page, which drastically cuts down on that weird inverted negative
flash thingy (that's the technical name, I'm told) that you get from e-ink screens.
The black «
flash» of an e-ink screen
refreshing is pretty rare, something that you see only about every three to four
page turns as you're reading.
The simulated experience of reading a physical book gets diminished a bit when your screen
flashes black for a split second every time you turn the
page (to
refresh those e-ink pixels).
Unless you set the
page to
refresh with a black
flash on every
page turn, you'll get a progressive bleed through of previous
pages interfering with the contrast of the text.
And it uses a new proprietary screen technology that
refreshes pages faster, with less
flashing.
For actual reading it's more or less negligible that the Nook display
refreshes a hair faster and only
flashes after 5 or 6
page turns.
Just login an hour or two before the
flash sales begin and keep the window open, do not
refresh the
page, you can try opening the same
page in another tab of your browser to cross check if the countdown timer matches.
For basic interactions like navigating the UI, swiping
pages, and rotating the screen, and even typing, it's just a little slower than using a regular touchscreen, other than a quick
flash of black when the Kindle needs to
refresh the entire panel.