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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Personally I have a different take on the brightness issue, which is that it isn't possible to get the eInk brightness on my device low enough. I read at night in the dark, and can get my phone brightness much much lower, with better contrast, than my eInk device, make it much more comfortable to read on.
If I were reading outside in daylight, I would prefer an eInk reader, but at night I find a OLED reader greatly preferable.
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You are apparently referring to the brightness of the light in a lighted eInk reader? An LCD must be used with it's backlight, but use of a light built in to most eInk readers is purely optional. How do you read paper books?
For reading in bed, or in a dimly lit room, factoring in ONLY comfort to my eyes, I'd prefer good paper and a good reading lamp.
Next, adding some factors of convenience, I'd prefer an eInk reader with contrast and clarity comparable to paper and good reading lamp.
If convenience, and not disturbing my wife with a lamp, is weighed more heavily, and the choices get down to a lit eInk reader or an LCD reader, I'd prefer the eInk for eye comfort. But I agree, I wish our Paperwhites would be a little dimmer. And whiter. And sharper.
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