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Old 08-15-2020, 12:14 AM   #137
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Originally Posted by Antartica View Post
...Certainly the screen is a bit grayish, even a little darker than my old Sony PRS-950 ("Pearl" e-ink). That means that for indoor reading, even if you have indirect lighting, you will need to have the backlight on.

The backlight is too bright for my taste. Comparing with the kindle voyage, the pocketbook at it lowest setting is comparable to the voyage at 50% (note that I only want the backlight to brighten a bit the background; in the voyage I have it at 4%)...
Your entire review is helpful but this is especially good info for me since my last two ereaders were the Voyage (which is my current model) and a Sony PRS 950, so you're giving me really good info to compare with. I can't say until I try it but I don't think I'd mind the greyness or darkness as long as I have a backlight to use.

I don't use the auto light brightness feature on my Voyage and only manually adjust it. I usually keep it on around 7-9 out of 24 so I suppose that translates to around 25-38% total brightness. I don't usually use it any brighter than that so I do worry a little about the Pocketbook's lowest brightness setting equalling about 50% on the Voyage. I just tried my Voyage at 12 out of 24 which should be 50% and I could be okay with it but it'd be nice if the brightness could be lower.
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