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Looking at getting a tablet with a "paper like" screen for reading ebooks and bible study. I currently use a few apps with saved notes, highlights, etc. on my phone so it will have to be an Android device to carry that over. A color screen is another need but understand the cost going up there. I see many in the 6 to 7 inch size but not sure much better that is than my phone. Appreciate any recommendations gang and many thanks in advance.

Second-generation e-paper can be rolled up, use almost no power and even display video.Plastic Logic makes backplanes for e-paper.Plastic Logic E-readers such as the Amazon Kindle and Sony Readers have brought e-paper to the masses. With bright screens, contrast and resolution that rivals that of ink on paper and a reflective display that can be read even in bright sunlight, the devices make reading much more comfortable than on a computer screen.But with small, rigid, black-and-white glass screens, these first-generation devices are just the starting point for a new industry. A swarm of companies, including big names such as Hitachi,...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - In Neal Stephenson's sci-fi novel "The Diamond Age," a young girl's companion is a book with amazing qualities -- it talks, and the words magically change with the story A decade after Stephenson's book was published, what was once labeled science fiction is finding its way to the real-world market. "Electronic paper" is a display technology that makes possible flexible or even rollable displays which, unlike current computer screens, can be read in bright sunlight. But, much like when LCD displays came to the market, consumers are first likely to see the technology in clocks and watches....