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Originally Posted by SUSGOD
AAAHHHHHHH! Slaps palm to forehead…. Generation issue!!
I have watched the younger generations play their handheld video games in the dark. Never having seen an e-book reader in person, I simple assumed that I would be able to read the handheld e-book in the car at night while my husband drives or while I’m in bed with the lights off. Now I find out it does not have its own lighting system. Oh dear! Oh dear!  |
Actually, your assumption is pretty reasonable, the reason it's not correct
in this case is that e-ink is a new display type, and its structure can't be back-lit, as HarryT points out, it's opaque.
There
are, however reading devices that use LCD screens just like the hand-held games you mentioned, and those reading devices can be back-lit just fine.
It's just that for an e-ink display the light has to come from the front.
