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Originally Posted by john peer
BTW, it's the seller....
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Thanks, you had me wondering what that answer was.
You're quite right about the search thing, it's often ... less than stellar in its performance. I've found that I sometimes can't find things even
with a personal recollection of the original discussions.
(For anyone who might be wondering, searching for "backlight" -- no space -- isn't any more ...
illuminating. 
)
That's one of the reasons that I try to be patient with new arrivals asking the "same old" questions: even if they have searched pretty thoroughly, they may well have not found a thing on the matter.
The other main reasons are that the questions aren't "same old" to
them, or they wouldn't be looking for the answers in the first place; and that it's just not nice (and rather short-sighted) to give folks the impression that their questions aren't welcome unless they've read the whole forum history.
You'll be glad to know that it looks like a general community interest is beginning to gel toward putting some sort of FAQ area together. The issue there, of course, will be to point it out to folks in a way that comes across as interested in providing the answers without coming across as being dismissive. That'll be the next challenge, I'm sure.
As for the backlight thing, while I rarely miss it (my wife is, thankfully, unbothered by light when she's sleeping), I do occasionally wish for some sort of self-illumination on my Reader. I have a clip on light that I like quite well (CCFC lights work beautifully with e-ink, and rechargeable batteries mean I don't
care that it's a hog in that department), but I would love to see an on-demand front-lighting type of approach, either built in, or as
an add on. I know that add ons are unattractive to some, and just flat won't work in some circumstances, but a well-done one would cover most needs. In any case, just because I don't personally
need it, I have no trouble imagining that others might have just such a need.
In any case, I agree that if we all stopped talking about some sort of self-illumination for these things, it would probably convince those designing them that there was no interest in the feature, and they'd just ignore it. Guess that's yet
another reason to be patient with the "dead horse" issues (that's what that smilie is beating, BTW
).