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Originally Posted by Mitzasuro
Yes my eyes do better with the NookColor than with a nook with a nook light. I use the classic Nook during the day but it get's dark here at 4pm until 8am. When the nook light would start to go dim after a couple of days of reading It would start to hurt my eyes to read.My wife also got annoyed by the light and would keep her up at night. The NookColor saves me money on batteries and it doesn't bother my wife at night. I also have an anti glare screen on the NookColor which cut down on the shiny fingerprinted screen.
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This makes perfect sense as the Nook Color has better contrast and resolution plus better readability in dim light than the e-enk Nook. According to jocampo's own source these are main causes of eye strain on computing devices. And because of this, in 95% of MY reading conditions the Color causes less strain.
The only thing that would cause more eye strain on the Nook Color vs e-ink would be glare or too much screen brightness. I think the complaints about eye strain can pretty much all be traced back to these two issues. And they are valid reasons. Simply saying "LCD causes more eye strain" is not.
edit: I should also mention that even though the Color causes less strain for me, overall I still prefer the look of reading on e-ink. It's just more like a book and I like that. But with all the extra functionality of the Color, steering back on topic here, I feel it is indeed worth it.