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Originally Posted by ProDigit
Not really true.
There are 2 scenarios where Night mode makes sense:
1- Using e-ink books in normal day mode (same like reading a book) in bright outside sunlight, is very damaging to the eyes.
There is too much light hitting your eyes, and may cause temporal blindness.
For that matter, when you have a high intensity light source, it's better to use night mode.
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If it's THAT bright outdoors you need sunglasses to cut down UV.
In general there is no reason to use night mode on LCD, OLED or eink.
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Originally Posted by ProDigit
2- In a totally dark room, with the darkest backlight setting (or built in light like most Kindle Paperwhites and Oasis devices), the device emanates much more light bleed in normal mode than in night mode.
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Get a 3W to 5W filament style LED bulb in a reading lamp, or a 40W Halogen. A silvered reflector Par lamp in a shielded lamp that can be angled is best.
Any lighting good enough to read a 40 yo paperback is more than good enough. Turn off the eink front light. I have my Lenovo 10
" tablet at about 5% to have same brightness as paper at night reading.
I've found the front light on eink on PW3, Original H2O or Libra is even enough to read in those situations where there isn't enough light. About 10% max. No need for white text on black.
The inverse or dark modes were invented for cheap nasty screens that had too high a minimum brightness. I've not seen such poor LCDs made in the last 15 years.
It wasn't a problem on my 2000 or 2002 laptops.
No-one needs dark / inverse mode. It's actually often more tiring. Simply setting screen brightness or ambient lighting is more important.
I did actually wear sunglasses to read on occasion even here in Ireland outside, both paper and eink.
The phone, tablet and laptop are all pretty useless in full sunlight and inverse white text on black doesn't fix it.