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Originally Posted by athan00
1. As far as I could find the 903 model is available in black and white. Does it makes any difference on the eye? I mean on the reading and eye strain.
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I would say, with 5-6" device - there is no choice, only white. The plastic borders around the screen must serve as an extension of page margins to reduce the eye strain when reading words/letters close to the edges of the screen, because the margins on the screen are too narrow.
With 9.7" - in theory, there is enough room for wide enough margins on the screen itself, and therefore, the device may be dark.
Consider this: a regular paperback has only 8" page, so here we could have 1.7" of additional margins.
In practice, so far the margins are not as wide as I would like them to be, but this, hopefully, will be fixed in future firmwares.
That is, when opening books with FBReader.
With pdf the current situation is much worse, after re-flowing and zooming, there are no margins left at all, letters are cut in the middle.
So the issues with margins will have to be fixed, and therefore, the dark device is ok.
With a large 9.7" screen, if the device is white, I am looking if the white plastic borders are actually whiter than the screen or not.
If the device is whiter than the screen, then the screen looks even less white, and it is a constant unpleasant reminder.
Because 902 is whiter than the screen, I chose the dark one.
On it, the screen looks even whiter than it really is, which is great.
Of course, I expected to be able to set wider margins, but, again, I hope this issue will be eventually fixed, the current firmware is really made for 602, not for 902, they will have to add 9.7" screen specific margin sizes.
So the same should be true for 903 as well.