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Old 10-07-2013, 07:51 PM   #811
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
I often read in bed, using a lamp that points at the Kindle over my left shoulder. (Or more accurately, it points just beside it, or otherwise it will create glare.) I could read without any frontlight; I did so with the Touch.

However, the frontlight of the Kindle makes the page brighter; I raise it to *just* below the point where you start to see that the Kindle is lit by anything else than the lamp behind me. Setting the frontlight like this makes the screen more readable.

What I like to know if the KPW2 changes the following...

If I would raise the Kindle's frontlight more than mentioned, the screen does become brighter and whiter of course, but in a very strange way. As I said in another post some time ago, it looks like "milk between two sheets of glass with letters floating in it". It looks really strange, and the screen becomes really hard to read, at least for me. Also, the letters seem to look smaller, but of course they aren't.

Does the KPW2 change this? I'm assuming that if I'm experiencing a too bright frontlight like this that there are more people around to whom it looks the same.
I can't have it too bright so close to my face, so it's difficult to say. I usually read in complete darkness at very low light settings, around 6 or 7, sometimes even less.
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