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Originally Posted by MGlitch
We can also say that the moon being made of cheese has a negative affect on our eye health. Except it doesn’t because it isn’t. People have read at night for generations, since before we had electricity. It’s not overly difficult. And it’s become less and less difficult over the years prior to frontlight ereaders.
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I don't see any point there. People can read at night. Without environmental light it was impossible until thirty of fourty years ago.
Does people get blind because the reading? Nope, I didn't said so. I said that reading without any environmental light is a bad habit, that can degrade the hability of your cone cells to react to light changes.
As reading is a quite difficult task for the brain (I mean recognize and processe glyphs vs other patterns, like faces, or composing movement based on retina persistance) it needs quite a few micro-movements more (called sacchaic movements in english, or at least by google translate
).
Having a good light environment (not too bright, not too dim) is recommended for these kind of tasks. In general the recommendation is more light comming from the environment that from the source of the read. That's why I talked that both lcd and e-ink tech are allowing bad habits, because it is now possible to read in the dark. And, nope, is not possible to read without using the cones, so we're screwed
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