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Originally Posted by gmw
Sure there's more context in the posts - both yours and mine. Suffice to say that the strength of your argument comes over as a virtual accusation that close to 50% of people can't adjust their brightness...
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Not sure what a virtual accusation might be, but I simply don't understand how anyone can come to the conclusion that I've accused (virtually or otherwise) 50% of everyone/everywhere of not being able to adjust their brightness. Even by examining only your quote of me (with or without context). I also allowed that for some of those many, it is through no fault of their own that the intensity is not correctly adjusted. Some devices may lack the range to adjust to their comfort level. I did not suggest that users did not know
how to adjust their brightness. I merely suggested that it's not hard for me to believe that at large number of the MR
poll respondents who voted No failed to get their brightness set to a comfortable level. For any number of reasons.
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Originally Posted by gmw
(which is a curious accusation considering most phones and tablets do it automatically these days), rather than offering that there might be a range of reasons.
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It is precisely
because automatic brightness adjustment that I believe some haven't properly adjusted their brightness. And you, yourself, have noted (and commented on) the discrepancies between the automatic adjustment of lighting between eink and lcd (or even phone vs tablet) devices. So surely it's not going out on a limb to suggest that some might be assuming that setting the brightness slider to the same position means that both devices have been set to the same brightness. I HAVE offered a range of reasons why I believe a large portion of those who voted No (to this particular MR Poll) might have done so.
Not once have I suggested, hinted, or intimated that everyone everywhere should be able to read for long periods of time on LCD devices (or that they should do). I don't care what people read on. I care about their proclamations about why their choice is inherently Better for Reading™