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Originally Posted by Alpha o
...as the red light lets your dark vision adapt faster.
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There is not much point flogging that dead horse because from my own personal experience it has been regarded as in much part myth for at least several decades (see my earlier post).
Now to keep Jon happy (same name as me but he forgot the "h"
) I will say two things about LCD and ones eyes.
First, every time there is a thread in which people complain about LCDs and their eyes I recall similar widespread complaints regarding RSI and computer mice when mice were first introduced. One could have easily assumed back then that every second person had mouse induced RSI and now that with just the passing of time pretty much everyone uses mice without complaint one has to wonder how much the "problem" was psychosomatic. And that much of the so called LCD "light problem" is too, driven in a similar way by chattering class received information.
Second, I roll my eyes every time someone talks about LCDs shining light into their eyes, or claiming reflected light is different to emitted light. Well I'll give them that reflected light is different in that reflection renders it diffuse, but there again LCD screens diffuse their light too so no case there - they just need to turn the brightness down.
I can accept that some people with sight problems may find very poor contrast media such as E Ink and print on paper more comfortable, but as others have said they may need to be under medical care or else turn the brightness down. Also all the good reading apps give almost infinite control over background and print colour and density, background texture, and screen gesture control of brightness.