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Originally Posted by arslonga
Good day.
I have been using Marvin on my iPad mini as a dedicated ereader but the backlight of the iPad is hurting my eyesight, and no background experimentation with Calibre dims it. I am thinking of switching to an e-ink Kindle. I am aware that Calibre will allow me to embed fonts in an AZW3 ebook as I am currently doing with my EPUBs; however, will the reading experience be similar to reading an EPUB in Marvin? Thank you for your attention.
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Have you experimented with the iPad mini Display and Brightness settings? With iOS 10 there is a feature called True Tone which shifts the color a bit to the red side of the spectrum to give you a warmer screen lighting that some find easier for reading. Also there is a feature called Night Shift that does essentially the same thing. Also you might want to turn off Auto-Brightness when reading and manually set the lighting to a dim setting.
Which iPad mini do you own? The first model had a low resolution screen that was difficult to read on, at least for some people, as it only had 162 ppi. Starting with the iPad mini the screens are the newer Retina displays that have 326 ppi and are really easy on the eyes for most people, as far as resolution goes.
Some people just cannot deal well with the backlighting of tablet devices. Personally I have no issue with them and actually prefer them over the e-Ink devices for all my reading with the exception of reading in direct sunlight and extremely bright conditions.
If you try a Kindle, you will notice a few things different from the iPad. For one thing it is grey-scale, so no color. Probably not an issue with most books. It is also slower to react. The fonts will look thinner and lighter on the Kindle than on the iPad because e-Ink cannot achieve the dark blacks that tablets can. Front lit Kindles will likely have some weird colorized shadowing on the screen under certain conditions. Quite frankly the front lit Kindles are worse on my eyes than tablets are, that is when the front light is on. Again, this is something you might not have an issue with. I also find it more difficult to highlight text on a Kindle because it s so sluggish compared to tablets. And if you read PDF files, forget the Kindle. PDFs suck on most devices, but they really suck on a Kindle.
So as someone suggested in an earlier post, you really need to get a Kindle and try it out for a few weeks to see if you like it. I suggest that you not sell the iPad mini until afterwards, just in case you decide the Kindle is not for you.