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Originally Posted by HarryT
You're not going to be able to read in "absolute darkness" without some source of light, and if you have a light source, you're no longer in absolute darkness, so it seems like rather a non-problem.
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Sorry if I was unclear, I hoped it was clear by now my comparison is an integrated cover light on the regular e-ink Kindles. I mean I am not using any light, other than the one on the Kindle. I want to be able to read in the dark with a self-lighted Kindle unit that looks like a book when closed and opens up to a lighted reading device when opened.
So, in the case of Kindle 4B vs. Paperwhite 2 the comparison is that of the light covered Kindle 4B vs. Paperwhite 2 with its integrated front-light. The surroundings are dark or at least as dark as they can be at night, of course nothing is absolutely dark, hence the double-quotes.
I do acknowledge using a clip-on light with Paperwhite would be an option, but I have never researched that further than the idea level (see the first post of this thread), due to lack of good cover-integrated light options for PW, the blacker text on the Kindle 4B and because PW has extra layers on top of the screen which mean it doesn't look quite as papery with external lighting anyway. If someone would make a good lighted cover for PW, I might consider that for reading in darkness - and using the frontlight when reading in lighted situations that need extra light.
More PW2 experiences: I read in complete darkness yesterday, light at 7 again, and it worked OK. Light evenness wasn't any kind of issue at that level, a bigger one was that the text and the page were feeling quite dark by that stage - but going much up from the light level would have meant getting that LCD feeling (and disturbing future sleep) and that's no good either. Anyway, at the very least I'm liking the PW experience finally, with my replacement PW2. It just remains to be seen if the PW experience itself is the best (or not) for my particular use cases. Anyway, I'm keeping this unit - it is a keeper.