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I'm 72 years of age and still have 20/20 vision.
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That's really extraordinary. Something like 99% of the population suffers from severe presbyopia due to lens hardening by the age of 72. (hence the term "presbyopia," which literally means "old-sight")
But one thing you definitely aren't taking into account is age-related light sensitivity. By age 70 the pupil is basically unreactive except in extremely diverse lighting situations, and the amount of light reaching the retina is down three-quarters from what it was when you were age 20.
I think your strongly negative emotional reaction to e-readers like the Kindle may be driven by an unwillingness to accept that you're suffering from age-related visual decline. You can't see the Kindle or paper books very well at all because you can't get sufficient illumination to read them properly, as a result of which you get defensive and blame the problem on the books/devices rather than yourself.
(and before you say your reaction isn't emotional, explain why you started this thread with the title "MAJOR FLAW in the Amazon Kindle" -- the caps weren't exactly necessary, were they?)
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Non-PC readers do not allow for multitasking which is essential for me.
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Funny. Tell that to any professional academic in any discipline.
At your age, a nice big high-resolution LCD is an ideal reading device because it can overcome all age-related visual deficiencies. Something comparatively smaller with a high DPI is very nice for someone under 50 or used to wearing reading glasses because there's much less chance of eyestrain when you aren't reading with the aid of a CCFL backlight that's flickering at the mains frequency (or up to 85Hz, if you're lucky).
I guess what I'm trying to tell you is this: don't claim that the Kindle or any other electrophoretic display device is "flawed" because it doesn't meet your reading needs. "Flaws" mostly encompass engineering and manufacturing failures, like high numbers of stuck pixels, exploding batteries, poorly-designed user interfaces, badly-written firmware, inter alia.