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Originally Posted by PennyPie
The Sony PRS-700 is backlit, but not really as bright as I would like...I don't recommend it very highly, only for that reason. Otherwise, I LOVE it. You can enlarge the text on it, so that is a very nice feature.
Penny
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Technically speaking the PRS-700 is not
backlit. That would imply that the light shines from behind the screen, as will an LCD monitor, even though this is physically impossible with eInk. In fact the light comes from the sides and is spread out by a diffuser, making it
frontlit.