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Originally Posted by meeera
The way I see it you have a a few main options, depending on which direction you'd like to compromise:
- Go for a good e-ink reader, get a good rigid book case for it plus put that into a protective shell case for transport, and treat it well....
- Go for a basic cheap six inch reader...and be prepared to replace it
- Go for a tablet....[and keep control over the color temp and brightness]...and carry an external battery charger.
The studies declaring "iPads disrupt sleep" had their subjects reading white-background documents in full brightness in a dim room for two hours before bed. That's not a realistic usage.
Unless you're talking about library epubs, if you're going to manage your device with Calibre (strongly recommended) format conversion from epub-kindle or the other way round is largely trivial.
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Thanks a heap, the three basic paths make sense to me, I'll ponder, look around and see if other questions arise. And I already use CaLibre (a little), and love its great number of capabilities.
As far as sleep disruption from LCD screens, I have extensive personal experience with desktop screens, running f.lux the past year or so. My perception, whether imaginary or not, is that the sleep disruption in my case seems to stem from a) the light colors; b) the less than restful posture I often adopt sitting up, using keyboard and mouse, etc; c) the kind of concerted attention to thoughts and to subtle visual cues that constitute rapid and intensive computer use. All to say, I already think it's not all light color's fault. And maybe a tablet, used while reclining, primarily for pleasant reading and graphics viewing, with attention to brightness and color, will be so different an experience that sleep won't suffer too much. I do know that using an ereader under those more relaxing conditions was more like reading a book in bed.
The tablet sounds worth an experiment. I presume that almost any used Android should handle automatic time-of-day color wavelength software and have ability to force a dark reading background, again automatically, in most cases. I'm ready to try it, given how tough they sound, even though my sleep at present is pretty fragile: I'll be a good test case, I guess ;-) .
Next step is to find out what tablet mfrs to avoid, as not being tough enough. I'd guess that most iPads will pass the "tough" test. What I hope is to find a cheap 8 inch (or one step larger) Android that also passes the test, but I will fall back on used iPads if that proves hard. Not to start a new topic--I should open a new thread--but I read good things about the nVidia Shield, though it is on the small side for my purposes.