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Originally Posted by Katsunami
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.
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To me, the pw2 screen looks best when it does not look like the light is on. That is, when you set the light so it more or less matches the ambient light. As long as I use the light to lighten the screen and mask how not-white the screen actually is, I get a decent reading experience -- more like reading a book, as Amazon claims.
But if I push the light up more than ambient light because there isn't enough light to read by, then it looks like what it is -- a glowing lit screen. I see all the screen unevenness and I'm very aware of looking at a screen. You know how when you saw the kindle for the first time. you thought the message on it was a printed sticker, and when you realized you were actually looking at the screen it was a wow moment. The light destroys that illusion.
If anything, the pw2 is worse in this respect because the yellow bias makes the screen look more hazy.
Ps: I never read in complete darkness. I find that very unpleasant.