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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
My idea of an ideal reader display would be either a high contrast e-ink screen with a variable backlight and long battery life or a reflective LCD with the same specifications: high contrast with a variable backlight and long battery life. Until then, I will have to settle for the best compromise of comfortable viewing, durability, ease of use, battery life, firmware, format compatability, price, etc., for me and my needs.
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Unfortunately you're never going to see a backlit eInk screen for the simple reason that eInk screens are opaque, hence cannot be illuminated from behind.
Sony tried producing a side-lit eInk reader, the PRS-700. It was very unpopular, because the air gap introducted by the lighting elements between the eInk display and the outer plastic screen resulted in a "blurry" display. It wasn't on the market for very long before Sony stopped making it, and they abandoned the lighting with its successors.
It'll be interesting to see how successful Amazon are with the Kindle 3, which has the option of a cover with an integrated "pull out" LCD light to front-illuminate the screen.