Which is Better for Vision: Reading with Ebook vs Retina MacBook?

Question

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Readers were a salvation from harmful reading from flickering and grainy PC and laptop screens, but now there are very tasty MacBook Pro Retina late13 screens without flicker, with indistinguishable pixels and generally very pleasant.
Is it still more useful to read from the reader? The reasons for the MacBook are the larger screen and the better display of PDF files.

Answer 1

Compare the damage to the eyes: glowing pixels flashing directly over your eyes (any screen) and a backlit e-book screen, comparable to the fact that the light falls on the page of a book? Draw your own conclusion.

Answer 2

Physiologically, low screen resolution is not harmful to the eye - however, it is unpleasant for the brain, and it increases fatigue. Since e-Inca and retina pixels are not visible to the naked eye, there is no difference.
What is really harmful is the high contrast. If you read from a retina in a bright, comfortably lit room, there is again no difference with e-ink.
But when reading at dusk / darkness, the difference is already huge - the display brightness is usually much higher than the brightness of the e-ink backlight, if you read with backlight. As a result, in the dark, the iris of the eye expands, and a bright display hits it with all its dope. This is exactly what is harmful. We usually read books / e-inks without illumination in reflected light, when not only the book, but also the surrounding objects are illuminated - this prevents the iris from expanding too much.
So don't read in total darkness or lower your screen brightness and you'll be fine. In general, it is even more harmful for the eyes to focus for a long time at one distance. At least once every half an hour, look outside the window for a minute, then vice versa, focus in front of a book, and farsightedness / myopia will come later.

Answer 3

It's not just that the pixels are grainy and bad. The light from them cannot be called physiological.
When you look at any object, you see the rays of the part of the spectrum that it reflects. Our Sun has an almost uniform spectrum over the entire range that your eye perceives and the reader screen transmits it almost unchanged. Needless to say, it's good.
Also, E-ink has a higher contrast ratio. Have you seen how the LCD fades in the sun?
Here the question is not how good modern LCD displays are, but that they are physically limited by the principle of their work and can only approach the quality of some parameters to E-Ink, but will never reach it.

Answer 4

retina - a normal modern IPS screen of normal quality with a higher pixel density, but output with half the resolution. the pixel density on mobile phones is higher, the screens on many are no worse.
with the acquisition of a normal monica, I read articles and so on on it (I used to throw large ones on a book), but books are on a book. With PDF the same trouble, I did not find a normal solution.
a book is better for the eyes, but a modern screen is minimally harmful.

Answer 5

Flicker is flicker. Even so frequent and invisible. The harm of new monitors is minimized, but a book that does not flicker is still more useful. I really hope that this technology will not die for readers.

Answer 6

A book, of course (if it's e-ink without backlighting, especially matte).
Whatever light bulb you look at (even the coolest and most expensive) - it is more harmful to the eyes than looking at the carpet.

Answer 7

e-book, as there is no flicker.

Answer 8

I didn't like the e-book. Equally watery eyes and cut. It seems to me that it is more about the efforts that the eyes make to read the text from such a surface and not about whether something shines into your eyes or not. Especially in the evening, before going to bed, reading from an erider is poor. You need a lamp, but it shines a little even from a matte screen. But I really like to read from the retina. Eyes hold more. They only get watery somewhere from 2-3 hours, which is enough for me. I read from the strength of half an hour to an hour.
From the erider it is well read in the park under the sun. And at home, retina is more pleasant