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Originally Posted by blue_skies
Having a frontlight, even when used at the lowest setting, improves contrast tremendously. Unless you only use it in bright, direct sunlight in which case I suppose it wouldn't make a difference. But if you are able to compare an eInk screen with no frontlight and one with a frontlight on - in typical indoor lighting, you should see a significant improvement in the one with the light. (The screen background will look much whiter.)
My previous eReaders have always had black bezels, so I was worried about the white... but I actually really like it. Some times the bezel does look a little whiter than the screen, but it is not distracting. The even more surprising thing is that at certain times during the day, the screen will actually look whiter than the white bezel. I think that is when the ambient light is a little warmer, like in the early evening.
What you said about the white frame reducing eye fatigue is interesting. I think there may be something to that.
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Quoting myself here because I wanted to post a link that demonstrates what I mention above... you can see the screen looks whiter than the frame when the frontlight is set to around 30 percent or more, which is what I have found to be true with my Mimas too -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQvAoRjn2l0