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Old 04-10-2017, 05:33 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by meeera View Post
I've found reviews that assert that an eink reader has a 'backlight' to generally be ignorable wholesale. If the reviewer can't even get the basic features right, why should I listen to their opinions on how the device operates?
I often call it a backlight (ok, I don't write reviews, but still). I still think that "frontlight" implies a device you put on the reader that will be external and lights up the screen from the front.

And it still comes from the screen, be it from a layer behind the "display" layer or on top of that "display" layer. For the majority of non-technical people it's identical: light comes from the screen and you don't need an external source of light.
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