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Originally Posted by Hughdal
To date the most portable light solution i've seen is the minature miners helmets, in the the 21st centuary this is just not good enough.
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I can't really agree with that statement, as the mining hat is the exact opposite of the 700's light. It is the furthest from the screen of any of the lights we've mentioned and the 700's is the closest.
The closest things to your desired
effect (the lighting effect of the 700) would be (1) a reader light with more than one LED, which clips to the side of the reader and lights the entirety of it, or (2) a 350 with lighted case. Since most people don't read their devices without a cover, I'm not quite following why the idea of a lighted cover seems repugnantly complicated to you. Your device is in its cover already and the light, which is part of it and adds no bulk, turns on automatically when you lift it into position.
While the light is not installed at the edges of the screen like the 700's, a multi-LED clip-on can create that effect, and a lighted cover comes far closer to that effect than a mining light would. Besides which, you would not have to constantly realign your skull to the page when sitting in otherwise comfortable positions. Better to get comfortable and then be able to adjust the light than to have to become your own midnight yoga instructor.
The lighted sides of the 700 in the dark are as distracting to me as the silver color of of certain models: You want the text at the center of the screen to be the brightest spot, not the blank areas around it. For me, that sort of lighting would be more distracting than having no light at all.
That's why light that is inches away from the text can be less distracting
if positioned so that the entire screen is bright but the direct glare of the light source is deflected by its angle relative to the person reading.
In that sense, the most seamless reading experience for you would have been either a (1) Sony case with built-in light or (2) netbook custom-fitted with a Pixel Qi. The Qi's transflective LCD is analogous to a car as well: unlit by day, backlit by night.