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Originally Posted by joblack
I don't like all kinds of (internal) light. And if you try to read on a tablet for several hours a day you know that it is a 'pain in the ***'.
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I would not try to read fiction for leisure on an LCD tablet for several hours a day if I had a choice. Yet, I am using 23" LCD monitor together with a smaller one to work and entertain myself on PC at work at at home for 12 hours a day.
For reading I was using old LCD screens for ages. Up until Sony introduced the first e-ink reader that a mere mortal could buy outside Japan. Wow! THAT was something.
I have been reading on a non-lit e-ink for years and it was much, *much* better experience than old LCD displays on ancient notebooks and PDAs. When Paperwhite came to the market I got one. Wow! THAT was something.
I updated to a different brand when other manufacturers introduced frontlit e-ink several months later. Frontlit e-ink
is in my eyes markedly better than non-lit one. I keep the light at a very low level. At about 5% most of the time, never more tnam 10%. Looking at the device you wouldn't even notice that it is lit. Only when I am switching it off I notice that the background immediately becomes much grayer. Backlit LCD or an [AM]OLED has to keep the level of backlight relatively high [in comparison with the ambient light], otherwise you do not see anything. With frontlit e-ink you need much lower level of light and you can still switch it off when you read on the beach or under a good, bright, halogen lightbulb. *And* you still have an option of cranking the light up to 11 when you want to finish that chapter while you are putting kids to sleep.
Have you ever tried using front-lit device for significant amount of time? Like a few weeks?