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Originally Posted by Chris Jones
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.
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Even been to the ophthalmologist ?
Some people don't have trouble reading with LCD (I don't really suffer eye strain from reading on my Nexus 7) , but I don't remember people saying e-ink was harder on their eyes. Maybe you're having trouble seeing contrast, and that's why LCD helps you ?
There are, IMHO, other factors than just the screen type, like ambient light, the overall quality of the screen, lights settings, font size, font weight ...
Try to set the frontlight higher (or lower ?) maybe.