#ereaders

this one guy runs this website abt ereaders and it has some informative and fun articles abt the history of ereaders but then it also has like. articles abt why everyone should calm down abt amazon. which i will not be doing <3

so the kobo clara color isn't strictly better than the kobo clara BW-- i mean obv it's a little more expensive (though honestly by a shockingly tiny amount), but apparently it is actually noticeably worse for just regular B&W display, so if you're not expecting to actually use it for color, the BW is likely to be the better purchase. basically it has worse contrast because to do color it has an extra screen overlaid on top of the BW stuff, so you will probably have to use the frontlight more of the time and at higher brightness settings to make up the difference. so i guess really in practice what this means is it has worse battery life since you're running it down more on the light, but whatever, it all amounts to "not strictly better, contains tradeoffs." i got zero plans to read color comics on an e-reader (or any comics really but certainly not color ones) so that's an easy choice for me. not gonna order it til i've completed the return on the pocketbook though, one thing at a time.