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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Somewhere in the past, I've commented on the Paperwhite looking like two sheets of glass with milk in between, with letters floating in there, when using the device in low light conditions. It's downright horrible.
I use the front-light to make the screen brighter, setting the strength to make it match the ambient light. As soon as the screen looks as if it's illuminated, it's too bright. This means that, in total darkness or very low light conditions, it's ALWAYS too bright.
With the phone, I've set the background to pure black for the night mode. If the brightness isn't 100% up, it's actually black. The dark orange letters just seem to float in space. (At 100%, it gets to be dark gray/black, and then the letters will be too bright.)
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I see. When you mentioned night mode I was thinking dimming of the screen, but still leaving black text on white background. Black background and white text (or any color for that matter) does look lots better on LCD, even more so on OLED. At night I do prefer pure red text on black, but the Kindle app only allows white, so that is out. At night inverted mode on eink is pure garbage—in order to have the letters bright enough, the background is no longer dark enough. I just don't bother with inverted on any device any more.
So, yes, I would ditch my eink reader at night as well if I needed inverted mode. Fortunately my eink reader is good enough to read in any lighting condition and I do like the ergonomics (big screen and buttons).