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Old 03-30-2019, 05:29 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Light is light. Your eye doesn't care whether the photons come through the screen (as in LCD) or are reflected from it (as in frontlit eInk). I have noticed, though, that many people have the lighting on tablets set way too high. The screen should be bright enough to read clearly, but it should not be visible "shining".
I will respectfully disagree on this. At least until I read some solid science proving this is so. In my opinion, your body handles looking a a light source very differently than a white reflection of light and even a black reflection of light. And my emphasis is on 'body', not just on the eyes.

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