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Originally Posted by newday07
Certainly, but having skin and eyes problens and suffering from headaches for the lights and climate reasons, when I read "infrared" in the ereader description I wanted to ask, since Infrared could be very harmful as far as I know.
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Certainly staring into the toaster is harmful. The IR is lower power and thus less harmful than any visible LED.
It's absolutely safe and has no biological effect at all. It's almost red LED and less power than an LED backlight.
The reason for it is because capacitive and resistive touch screens make the "white" of eInk display more grey.
The "front" light (White LEDs don't exist, they are either blue / violet with yellow phosphor or R, G and B LEDs) uses FAR more power and is safe, though if there is too much blue, it can reduce the ability to sleep easily at night, otherwise harmless.
There is more IR from a filament lamp and MUCH more from a security camera. A grill, electric fire bar, halogen security light, toaster etc has many thousands of times more IR.
Clue: You can't feel it!