I've used both extensively (I work for a book publisher), and I feel just the opposite. e-ink displays seem muddy and washed out to me in anything less than direct sunlight- though I will admit they look great in sunlight. But where LCD shines (cough, sorry for the pun) is in page turns- that half-second pause for each turn makes moving past the CIP, index, and title pages irritating. And if your'e trying to read anything other than a novel, getting 100 pages in can be a nightmare. We make reference books that basically are for all practical uses unusable on e-ink devices.

As well, I find that personally, I run into low light situations far more often than over bright ones. I remember taking a flight, and the person across the aisle from me had a Kindle but due to his reading light not working, he had to pack it away and not read for the 4 hour flight. I read an ebook while listening to tunes on my iPad, then switched to a movie, and kind of chuckled to myself.

I know you said "specifically for reading ebooks", but I also find the fact that the iPad (and presumably the Fire, though I haven't used one of them yet) can do so much more than a simple e-reader that picking one of them up is a far better idea for most people than a single-use device. Your milage may vary tho.

Radical. What do you think we are, barbarians?

I hope my post has in no way offended you, and if it did, I offer my sincere apologies.

"Juggers coming! Juggers coming!"

...now all we need is a dog skull, and we're all set.

I used to work as an in-school tech at a Junior High School, and to this day I remember being in the lunch room one day and hearing one of the teachers proudly comment on how they always waited a minute or two after microwaving food, so that the microwaves could "dissipate". This lead to a discussion of the 3 or 4 teachers around about what things worried them- with the emissions from the smokestacks of the local refineries being the winner after some discussion.

Then one of them pipes up, no word of a lie, and says, "I hate when those smokestacks are billowing smoke out, but I hate it more when they're not- who knows* what they're emitting when you can't see it!"

/facepalm

Please! "Sea Kittens", not fish.

/rollseyes

I am in awe sir, that is the best thing I've read in weeks.

Not only that, but if you read back he's actively defending his wrongness... /shakes head in mild disbelief.

Sooo.... the obviousness of the Metric system are lost on you. Ok. I do have to ask, in what possible way does "Increment size 180 degrees between freezing and boiling. Now that makes sense." can possibly make sense? Why 180? Why not 415? 7152323? 5?
br. To this day I don't understand why the US, Libera and Burma insist on being the only Imperial holdouts... other than the obvious "Change is bad, durr!" mentality.

Yeah, there's nothing funny about his comment.

To the OP:
So what can be done about this? Do we have to accept the old adage that "90% of bad cops give the rest of 'em a bad name" (bad cops being truly bad cops and those who cover up for them)? Is there really no recourse?

"might be a whole generation before the old stubborn ones die out."

That's what they said in the '60s, it's what they said in the 70's, I remember hearing it personally in the 80's and the 90's.... Funny how the radicals get conservative once they get old...

When prohibition on alcohol ended, the only sobriety tests were roadside coordination tests and smelling someone's breath. The legalization of alcohol was still* a net positive on society. The mere fact that we haven't created a reliable marijuana impairment detector has no bearing on the fact that the war on MJ is incredibly damaging to society in almost every way.

That is a good point, but when your milk has lead in it, you at least have a legal recourse in the ability to sue. On the black market, your choices are limited to suck it up and get violent. This helps how?

Best idea I've ever seen for this is from the Inventions of Daedelous, where he suggested a rapidly switching magnetic field to stimulate the emission of microwaves, very much like a MRI but tuned to emit a different frequency. Basically, inducing the food to emit* microwaves instead of absorbing them. Would require a dump to get rid of the microwaves to prevent re-absorbtion, but hey, details can always be worked out later...

Well, the article states that the trains will never get more than 6-8 cars long, not a mile long. That's less than the huge road trains they operate in Australia (trucks with many, many trailers).

I, for one, am shocked, shocked! that Facebook of all companies has introduced something so invasive!