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Originally Posted by tomsem
Well that brings up a good point, which is the skin cancer risk of reading in direct sunlight with your eReader. LCD screens are much safer since they nudge you into the shade.
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I always wonder why people sit in the direct sun, especially at latitudes lower than around 60 degrees doing things, such as reading, that they could just as easily do in the shade. There is plenty of advise not to do so.
I have spent the good part of a lifetime with a lot of just outdoors recreational time (so not working in it all week, for example), including sailing. Early in those times the dangers of the sun to the skin were not made much fuss about and I and plenty of others now have the scars to prove the danger. Misspent time in the sun definitely catches up, either with premature aging of the skin or benign or non-benign lesions.
And one does not have to spend a lot of time in the sun to tempt serious problems, the most dangerous lesions seem to like those that get irregular doses of sun.