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Old 10-25-2008, 09:07 PM   #965
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
As has been said about a million times on this forum, you CANNOT backlight eInk screens for the simple reason that the screen is opaque. You can sidelight it, as the Sony PRS-700 does, but you cannot backlight it.
I'm not asking for a backlit eInk. What I'm saying is that I think a backlit LCD may work better for me than eInk. eInk may look more like paper but mine proved to fragile and I like my backlit eBookwise for reading in the dark.
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