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Old 12-14-2025, 11:22 PM   #18
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I've never owned a backlit e-reader. I have owned many that are frontlit, and if that's what you're referring to, I'm puzzled how you think the absence would be an improvement. Also, having gone through ereaders with many different resolutions, "resolution doesn't matter a lot" is another statement I can barely even parse, let alone agree with.
To get the light spread evenly over the whole display, the surface of a light layer is micro-etched with a complicated pattern to affect how much light gets internally reflected and how much leaks out at different locations. The etching will affect what you are looking at underneath it.
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