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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
This keeps on getting repeated -- that the ambient light was dim. Yes, that's how the researchers categorized it. But they also gave numbers to the ambient light, and I don't think the average person would describe that as dim. I don't say that because I am familiar with the numbering system used there. I'm not. I say it because a dozen people were able to read paper books in that light for two hours straight (before the break). The study subjects wouldn't have done that if it was what a layman, as opposed to a sleep medicine physician, calls dim.
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The iPad does not default to fixed full brightness in evening indoor conditions where there is ambient lighting, low but bright enough to read paper books. It just doesn't. Try it. Then put it on full brightness in those conditions, with a black-on-white book showing, one foot from your eyes. It is like looking at a blazing sun.
RIGHT NOW I am in indoor midsummer daylight, far brighter than a lamplit evening room that I would read pbooks in. My iPad is right next to me, well-lit and very easy to read - a little too bright for my liking, to be honest, once I go into the settings area which has a grey/white background. The brightness setting is well under halfway. This is what happens in the real world.