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Originally Posted by radleyp
Dennis, you turn off the backlight to read in daylight, what would be the effect of turning it up?
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A brighter screen. It might make it readable outdoors, but that will depend on the ambient light level. Screen brightness is the largest single factor in battery life on devices like mine, so I normally set it as low as possible while still readable indoors. Some uses, like watching video, really need a brighter screen, and I increase it a bit for that.
My device gets recharged every night, so I seldom see the battery drop below a 70% charge, and if I'm traveling, a charger goes with me. I understand low battery consumption as a major feature of eInk, but I've been conditioned to top off regularly by PDA use: mine is one of the devices that keeps data in volatile RAM and loses everything if the battery totally discharges. The ebooks and most apps all live on SD cards, and it's backed up regularly, so recovering from an outage is an annoyance, not a disaster, but I don't need that sort of annoyance and make sure it doesn't occur.
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Dennis