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Old 05-06-2021, 04:04 PM   #56
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Originally Posted by kacir View Post
A photon arriving at your retina that originated in a backlight LED is indistinguishable from the one that originated in a LED reading lamp and was reflected to your eye from an e-ink display.
When reading on an lcd screen the light from the white background is projecting at your eyes. On an e-ink display the light from the white background has bounced off of that background, diffusing it and doing who knows what else to all of those photons. With an lcd screen it feels like I'm shining a light at my face (no matter how low it's turned down while remaining usable), which it does not with an e-ink display. And on an lcd display changing the background to tan or gray doesn't help, I still feel like I'm shining a light at my face.

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