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Originally Posted by Blossom
The Nexus 7 is the only device I read on now. I couldn't imagine reading on anything else. I use to get eye strain reading on my Kindle Paperwhite. I don't think front lit devices are for me. I had switched back to my unlit Kindle to read on before I got the N7. Now I just read on the N7 using Moon+ Pro. I modified one of the app's background to look just like a paperback page and I use a nice dark font so it feels like I am reading a real book and not a washout newspaper article that eInk gives you. I love being able to switch fonts. I have two fonts that works for me. One for modern books and One for Historical fiction. I get no eye strain whatsoever when reading and my eyes don't get hot like they did with the Paperwhite.  |
I had been looking far and wide for this piece of information for the last couple of months. I've used backlit LCD's 10-12 hours a day mostly reading/writing code for the last 15 years and I never ever experienced any eye strain.
I've been using a Kobo Glo' to read in bed every night and with its really feeble contrast.. I have found that I can read for about ten minutes and my eyes begin to hurt..! The front light makes it worse but it also happens when I use a bedside lamp and turn off the Kobo's front light. On a couple of occasions it got so bad that I had to get out of bed to finish reading a chapter on my laptop..!
Since everybody and the journalists appeared to say that tablets were not good for your eyes I thought.. well maybe there's something in it and a tablet is going to be even worse than my e-reader.
Much thanks for confirming what I long suspected... that such claims are just E-Ink Inc.'s marketspeak...
Of course I have a number of other issues with e-readers (no colors, no audio, slow CPU, randomly unresponsive touch-screen..) but this is going to be the deciding factor.
You live and learn.. I guess. Only thing I'll miss is the battery life.