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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
Because of this, it is hard to perceive a non-lit piece of technology useless. If it's good enough on a paper book, it's good enough on e-ink screens.
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Sorry, but to me it isn't. The frontlight adds a lot of brightness and clarity, even when there is enough ambient light to read by. The reason is that a paperback, even an old one, is much brighter under the same lighting conditions as an unlit ereader. I can read a paperback at lower light levels than I can read an e-ink screen.
The frontlit ereader improves in a way I can't even describe with words (<-- put this in the relevant rant thread
), besting the paperback in the one and final advantage it had. Only because of that I wouldn't want to use an unlit ereader as my primary device anymore.