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Originally Posted by elemenoP
Bezos said in his keynote "you're going to like the light so much, you'll want to keep it on all the time." He used that as a segue into the great battery life (with the light on), but it's still worrisome to me. If Amazon thinks that people will use it with the light on at all times, maybe they don't care what the screen looks like when the light is off. I guess we will have to wait and see.
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I think he's spot on. I've been reading on my iPad more because I prefer being in low light rooms, but want my reading surface to be brighter. Even with a reading lamp, it never seems to be as good as a small reading light or self illuminating ereader. We just bought a new house last year and two things on my wish list was a north facing back yard, so that the patio area stays in the shade, and a large covered patio, so that I could sit outside and read. When I'm sitting on the patio, I have about 10ft. of patio roof in front of me, but across the yard is a white fence reflecting all of the tropical sunshine back at me. So, I'm already reading in a lot of shade, but when I glance up, my eyes have to adjust for the brightness of the fence. When I look back at what I'm reading, if it isn't illuminated, I just see spots. A brightly lit eink reader would be perfect!