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Originally Posted by fearindex
While I'm sure that can affect things, my experience of reading on PW2 in darkness is without overhead (or any other) lighting at all - some vague ambient lighting from distant windows that can't possible fall directly on the screen. Even though my PW2 looks yellow next to PW1, in darkness, in low light-levels it does look quite blue.
It is hard to judge photos, though. White-balance could be off, our screens calibrated differently etc. We can't know if our experiences are comparable.
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What the screen looks like is a combination of the color of the screen itself, the color of the LEDs, and color of external, ambient light.
The PWs use cool (white LEDs) which will cast blue in the dark when there is little competing ambient light. The screen and/or the diffusion layer on the pw2 is yellower than the pw1, otherwise it would look even bluer in the dark.
It's unfortunate that the pw looks bluer in the dark, because that is exactly when you want it to look warmer. That's why I think they need to make the screen neutral gray and use yellower LEDs, so user can control the warmth of the screen with the light. But I don't know how much control amazon has over the eink screen as they don't make it.