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Originally Posted by Barty
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.
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This is exactly the way I set the light level on my PW1. When reading outside, my light is at 12 at least, if nor more. We have lots of sun here and a high luminosity, so I need a high light level if I am reading at the pool. But if I am inside at night, the light goes down. I don't read in complete darkness anymore, my husband says the light of the kindle bothers him then more than my bedside lamp.