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Originally Posted by Turtle91
I'm a voracious reader on my smart phone. I've never had problems with the backlight hurting my eyes, but I understand others have. I would be interested to know if the newer model phones/pads wouldn't be a big improvement over those of a few years ago. If those that had eye problems with the older devices, and chose the e-ink team, wouldn't do just fine with the newer ones.
I know that my reading app has many functions to dim backlighting, change the background/foreground...I even do the triple tap at night with all the lights in the room off so I don't bother my wife with the light. (the triple tap puts it in reverse/night mode - white letters on a black background - and with the dimming set all the way to zero you wouldn't be able to tell it was on more than a few feet away but it is plenty bright for my reading)
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I didn't even have a phone when I got my kindle back in 2008. My first smart phone was a old firs gen iphone. Only used for calls. I finally got a moto G last year, the smaller version. I could read on it for a few minutes, at a doc office and such. But not comfortable immersive reading sessions.
I just got a brand new phone with fantastic screen, it has a built in blue filter, great PPI, just great screen and its larger, 5.5. Probably the best tablet type device I have read on so far. But I still can't read as long on it. But at least I can now read some of those pesky epubs I can't read anywhere else. But it is much much slower than reading on my kindles. And not as comfortable. My eyes do burn more after a while so I keep having to look away, which of course takes me out of the story. So takes longer.
I don't take my Voyage out on the road so you'd see me reading on the phone. But I read for hours on my Voyage at home. That is my reading time and what is most comfortable on my eyes. I tried my husband ipads just to see, he has a mini and one of those thin thingie. I am not very familiar with apple stuff as I don't use it, but as far as I know its the newest as he gets them provided at work. I wouldn't want to read on it more than a few minutes either.
My eyes just don't work with tablets for reading long term. My eyes work best with e-ink.
The act of immersive reading is very different than say reading a site, an app or a game or such things. Short bursts of this and that. Not like reading 100 pages in a book in one sitting.
So yes, newer devices are better than old, but they are still back lit tablets so the same issues still apply for me. Just lesser degree.