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Originally Posted by Braid
As for the view that too much contrast is harsh, I am puzzled. You're saying that a brand new print of a paperback will have dark black text and this will be 'harsh' for you, and you'll prefer to choose an older, more faded print?
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I am talking electronic contrast. An eInk screen, an LCD screen, an OLED screen. The harshness is usually a combination of excessive contrast AND excessive brightness, although either of these taken to the extreme individually is not good. I don't think current eInk screens have excessive contrast. Other screen technologies that you find on cellphones, tablets, computers, etc. certainly can. If you turn the reading light up to max intensity on an eInk device it can seem like too much contrast, but really that is a brightness problem, not a contrast problem.
Books can't really be "too harsh". I guess maybe, if you had super white bleached paper and you were trying to read print on that under a blazing equatorial sun. But that's an artificial example.