I love reading technical books slowly, and digesting all content.
Relocating around Europe made it quite tough to carry all my book hardcopies with me: SICP, CTM, TAOP...
Finally, it seems 13 inch eink readers with support for arbitrary formats (thanks to them running Android, or even capable to process input HDMI video) will become mainstream. To me that's the way to read more books. Thousands of technical books in an eye-friendly tablet. I wonder why it took so long.
Yes, I am referring to Onyx and others. Onyx is probably the best one, and they will be shortly upgrading to Android 4.4, providing a lower consumption CPU and more importantly HDMI input.
This last feature is a game changer.
I have tried Onyx 13 inch readers, and its a very good experience on technical ebooks, which I get on djvu and pdf formats.
By this, I suppose you mean e-ink paper vs. a backlit LCD?
There is ample research[1] to suggest that electronic paper (e-ink) screens don't offer any advantage over a backlit screen (say an iPad), except may be for reading under the Sun.
People do spend more time devouring content over computer monitors and mobiles phone (both are backlit) than on any other device. Have you tried reading normally over an iPad/standard Android tablet instead?
Relocating around Europe made it quite tough to carry all my book hardcopies with me: SICP, CTM, TAOP...
Finally, it seems 13 inch eink readers with support for arbitrary formats (thanks to them running Android, or even capable to process input HDMI video) will become mainstream. To me that's the way to read more books. Thousands of technical books in an eye-friendly tablet. I wonder why it took so long.