[andavane]

My very first eBook reader was a Palm phone, a lovely little thing with a screen the size of a large postage stamp. A vew years later came a Booken which was good but clunky, and you had to keep resetting it. The reading properly started in 2010 with Kindle Keyboard. That was the year things took off. The wifi only non-keyboard omje followed, with the finale being the Paperwhite last year which glows. I still use all three.

This year however I've become more abstemious as I hate the idea of buying books I'll only read once and never touch again. With the launch of our Council's eLibrary, I'm reading some thrillers on ePub and have bought a Kobo Mini for this purpose, mainly for use in my bag when I go outside, or just lie back in bed. Now I want a six inch screen model for reading library books and have decided that one of the Sony models will suit.

My question is what is readers' experience for glowing or non glowing? After the Paperwhite I thought that this was the ultimate. However, since going back to screens which you read through an external light, I immediately remembered how very restful this was.

Have any studies been made on which type of screen is more restful on the eye? At the moment I'm leaning towards Sony 350, but am remaining open to suggestions.
Can someone point me to some discussions on this, and experience of other users, ie the view on types of screen rather than brand preferences?
Regards,
John