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Originally Posted by vrf
I get the "options are good" argument. Fine. I just disagree from a design standpoint that a book-reading device should have a setting to "fix" the display color. How about we just get that color right to begin with? (The creamy/warmer white that most seem to agree is the most pleasant.)
The device is supposed to disappear. The story is all there is, not a whole bunch of settings to fiddle with.
What a disaster from a marketing standpoint would that be, to have photos out in the wild of orange-ish displays on a device named Paperwhite.
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Well, do you also object to it having a light, with brightness you can change to suit your eyes and reading environment? You can get the basic if you don't want more things to fiddle with.
Right now, the light has a fixed temperature which may be too cool for some people at all time and/or many people at night. You don't need to buy into the whole blue light and sleep think, which may just be bunk, but I bet your home at night isn't lit with bright fluorescent lighting like your office, but with warmer yellow light. Just nicer and more soothing, especially at night.
The best implementation of this I've seen is with f.lux on a jail broken iPad. It slowly makes the screen warmer as it gets darker and you don't really notice it unless you turn it off and realize how blue the screen is without it. It doesn't turn the screen some weird color.
I think Amazon is capable of implementing a variable light temp feature without making it an ugly orange at the extreme. There's the cost issue, so they'll probably introduce it with the premium model, but I'm pretty sure they'll do it and the feature will trickle down eventually.