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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I understand perfectly, as I used a K4 as my main reader for a couple of years. When I got my Voyage, I was disappointed at first, because its unlit screen looked much worse than the K4. But the trick with modern screens is to set the frontlight so high the screen looks lighter/whiter, but not so high it actually looks like a lit screen. When I read in the artificial light, I usually set the frontlight at level 9 and the screen looks pretty good to me, better than my old K4 looked in the same environment.
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Yeah I have noticed you can somewhat compensate using the light to make it "look" lighter in a given ambient light, but I don't want to have to do that and can never feel like I am in the right spot as just tilting the device a bit, or when clouds pass over or anything changes I see the glowing. I also don't do well with LED lighting for morethan a few min. I get headaches with LED devices and under LED room lighting over longer periods. I'd rather just have a beautiful light screen and not have to compensate for a worse natural clarity with frontlighting, but it's not an option it seems. Sitting by a window on a bright day the Kobo is "good enough" but seems very sensitive to variations in ambient light and is very distracting to me. Something I never even thought of with the old Kindle.