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Originally Posted by soondai
I say that with one caveat though: it certainly appeared to me that if you left the glowlight on a low setting in the lit room the contrast was better than a typical pearl screen.
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This is very interesting.
I'm not really interested in a glowlight function to read at night; I have appropriate lamps and am (inordinantly) bothered by uneven illumination. I didn't like the Kindle lighted cover for that reason.
However, e-ink readers don't have the same contrast as paper, meaning that you need a brighter light to get the same contrast. In my case, this meant switching light bulbs - I found that replacing the 75 W bulb in my reading lights with a 100 W bulb was necessary to give me the same contrast I was used to with paper. IOW, pearl e-ink screens have 25 watts less contrast than paper.
That solution works fine at home, but when I'm out (in a cafe, waiting to get my oil changed, etc.), the ambient lighting tends to not be particularly bright for reading purposes. I *can* read, of course, but I'm conscious of it being kind of dim. It's for those cases that a built in light would make the most sense for me, so it's interesting to see that it appears to help.