[rcentros]

This may be inexperience talking, but last night I tried comparing reading on my Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight and Kindle Touch with a lighted case. I may not have had the brightness set properly (though I tried several levels) but it seemed to me that the NST Glowlight caused the same type of eye strain (though not to the same degree) that reading on tablets and smartphones causes. Some of the reasons they give for eye strain in tablets (high contrast between dark and light, eyes always adjusting from ambient to back light) seems to be similar to the NST Glowlight's "front light." I also find the letters "washed out" on the NST Glowlight -- where on the Touch or Nook with LED, there is still a dark contrast. (But that's probably not as a big of an issue with the Paperwhite.)

At any rate, am I crazy? or has someone else had the same experience that I seem to be having here? Right now I'm just not big on the Glowlight -- but, admittedly, I haven't given it a very thorough test. And I know the NST Glowlight two (or three?) year old technology. I've come close to buying a new Paperwhite, but I have to get this settled in my head first.