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Ep. 238: The Joys of the Reading Life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Kindle
The Kindle is not really a screen in the traditional sense of let's say an iPad or a phone where you actually have different color lights being projected from these very small pixels that form an image. A Kindle is actually electromechanical. It used a technology called E-ink. One side is essentially white. The other side is essentially black. Think about it like there's wires to every little one of those things. And if you put a little electrical pulse to one of the disk, it flips over. That's why you shine a book light on it like anything else. Itreally is like you're reading paper.
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