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tombertyesterday at 10:52 PM1 replyview on HN

I don't have a Remarkable, but I do have a Pocketbook InkPad Color 3. I really like it, but color on that thing is pretty disappointing.

I was hoping that it would be a way to read through the comics I bought on Humble Bundle, but the colors are so washed out that I still just read them on a computer screen.

I have no idea what the engineering challenges are with making color e-ink, but they must be enormous because I (and many others) would pay considerable money for good color on e-ink.


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jsheardyesterday at 11:04 PM

Remarkable is quite different because it uses an E-Ink Gallery display, as opposed to the E-Ink Kaleido displays found on most cheaper colour e-readers such as yours. Gallery has true CYMK e-ink pigments while Kaleido is just mono e-ink with a passive RGB filter array on top.

I'm not a fan of Kaleido, as you say the colours are underwhelming, and the RGB filter attenuates light so the contrast is noticeably worse than classic mono e-ink. Gallery is way more expensive and slower to refresh though, so pick your poison.

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