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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
. . . I do use a night-time theme: black background, gray letters (not white, that's too high contrast, the letters will burn into your eyes...) I also turn down my screen as much as I can and I use "Screen Filter", an app that will put a filter over your screen, dimming the screen even further (for night time reading, it's at 14%, where 0% is a complete black screen, when I turn on my device in a normally lit room, I can't see a thing then!)
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Interesting idea, using an app to tone down the whole screen.
I was lucky enough that on my Viewpad 7e, the lowest screen setting is really low. Low enough in fact for reading even in a completely darkened room.
Even if this were not the case, my preferred reader app, FBReader, lets you set absolute color and brightness for both the text and background using three RGB 0-255 sliders (you can also use a custom tinted paper texture background and set it that way if you want).
One advantage of having a nice low low setting on the backlight though (instead of relying on a filter app or the RGB settings in your reader app) is that really cutting back electrically on the backlight also helps out quite a bit on battery run time on my tablet. At anything above half brightness, I am lucky to get 5 hours out of my tablet, but at minimum brightness I can easily get up to 7 or 8 hours.