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jabook · 02-11-2011, 04:26 AM

But in principle it is not. Radiation from wireless communication devices can harm people in the long term...

... but the serious effects are caused by somthing else than your e-reader. The biggest effect of microwave radiation on humans seems to be during the sleep. When you are awake, you have to be close to a source of radiation for a long time and many year to get a chance to get some bad effects. For example, if you work in an office just one or two meters from a wifi hotspot, you should be worried, but not by your ereader.

Thus, if you use your ereader to browse web for many hours a day (and constantly switching pages as streaming is not really fun on an ereader), you can be concerned...

... but the easy solution is to turn wifi off and use the readers for reading ebooks (and not to discourage from buying the majority of ereaders).

02-11-2011, 04:26 AM	#20
jabook Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: none	Looks like lot of fun But in principle it is not. Radiation from wireless communication devices can harm people in the long term... ... but the serious effects are caused by somthing else than your e-reader. The biggest effect of microwave radiation on humans seems to be during the sleep. When you are awake, you have to be close to a source of radiation for a long time and many year to get a chance to get some bad effects. For example, if you work in an office just one or two meters from a wifi hotspot, you should be worried, but not by your ereader. Thus, if you use your ereader to browse web for many hours a day (and constantly switching pages as streaming is not really fun on an ereader), you can be concerned... ... but the easy solution is to turn wifi off and use the readers for reading ebooks (and not to discourage from buying the majority of ereaders). Last edited by jabook; 02-11-2011 at 04:29 AM.