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Originally Posted by Jack B Nimble
This is getting into semantics. Yes, several of us do realize that for lighting, a "backlight" would not work with an eInk display, but that does not remove the need many of us have for some form of integrated lighting. It could take any of several forms, inlcuding the specialized lightwedge some have speculated about.
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I agree, and the problem is that when used with a booklight, the Sony screen has pretty bad glare. You can sort of deal with that by positioning the light off to the side or angling the screen away from you. Given that the screen has less contrast than paper, to my eyes it degrades rapidly in dim lighting, and without built-in lighting it can't compensate.
All that said (I started this thread), I enjoyed using the Sony during some recent air-travel. I had downloaded some huge forum threads from avsforum, saved them as txt files (the CONNECT reader choked on the RTF files for some reason), and read them on the plane. They made me turn off the reader during takeoffs and landings, though
