Reading in the sun

July 10th, 2008 by Jorge Zapico

Reading in the sun, originally uploaded by It’s a mobile world.

I’ve owned a sony e-reader for more than half a year now. Keeping the content in electronic format is one of the ideas for a more sustainable lifestyle, and electronic readers can greatly reduceĀ  the paper consumption from newspapers, novels, office documents…
I’ll be posting my experiences with reading without books, the benefits and the problems that need to be solved.
But as a teaser, a picture in bright sun of the reflective e-ink screen compared with a regular LCD screen.

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  1. [...] It uses a reflective display without light, works wonderfully under direct sunlight (actually work best under direct sunlight). I have used it for reading many books under the last year, and after the first pages you just [...]

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  2. [...] It uses a reflective display without light, works wonderfully under direct sunlight (actually work best under direct sunlight). I have used it for reading many books under the last year, and after the first pages you just [...]

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