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Originally Posted by toddos
As I understand it, eink is entirely opaque so a "backlight" can't work. However surface-mounted "frontlighting" should work just fine. I just don't understand why nobody's done this. When I use a booklight on my Nook, I do something similar to that -- I twist the light so that it's on the edge of the reader pointing sideways, and the light illuminates the screen just fine without glare like you get if you have the light pointing down at the screen. The next step is to pull the LEDs out of the light, embed them into the bezel of the reader, and power them from the device's battery. But to do that correctly would require manufacturing the LEDs into the bezel. Anything done after the fact just won't work well.
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