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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Yes, I hear some people clamoring for a backlit eBook reader. But tll me this, what did those same people do with a pBook in dim or no light? And because the eink displays cannot have a backlight display, does that mean they will stick with pBooks wich are also NOT backlight and cannot be?
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I don't think the original poster is necessarily attached to a backlight specifically, but to a self-lit device, which is possible to do with an e-ink display. I don't think it's unreasonable to want an electronic reader to give you some improvements over the paper. I think technology should try to take us further, not settle for just being as good as what came before. Why not be ambitious?
It's not enough for me for a reader to just be a mass storage device that shows me pages. That's why I held out for a device where I could search, make notes and look up words in the dictionary automatically and I was willing to pay a bit more for it. These were big features for me. Not everyone cares about them, I know. Not everyone cares about a reader being self-lit but I don't think it's an unreasonable feature request just because paper can't do it. Let's be better than paper. Personally, a light isn't a deal-breaker for me but I don't expect everyone to have the same wants and needs I have.