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Originally Posted by krazy4katz
Hi Tactile,
I remember when I purchased my very first kindle, it took me about a week to get used to it. Then I fell in love with it and can hardly read a "real book" anymore. So you might want to give it some time. I don't have a Paperwhite, so I may be wrong but it seems that the screen gets whiter as you turn up the light. You might want to turn the light down a bit so that some of the natural grayness of the screen is more obvious. I don't know if that will help or simply make it unreadable.
k4k
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It does get whiter (and brighter) when you increase the light output. If you want it to look less like an LCD and more like paper, it is indeed a good idea to just lower the light output, and use more ambient light.
In my room over here, a Kindle Paperwhite with it's light turned all the way down, compares with an old and somewhat yellowed/grayed mass market paperback that's printed on recycled paper. When increasing the light, it doesn't really look like as if the Kindle is illuminated; it looks as if the "page" is becoming of higher quality, and moving from a paperback toward a high quality bound book with very white paper.
In this room, the turning point is at setting 13. Then it matches a hardback with extremely smooth and bright paper. (That hardback is even shiny: if you directly point a light at it, you will be unable to read it.) This setting 13 is the highest that I can use in this room before the Kindle will start becoming brighter than the hardback and will start to look like an LCD.