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Old 10-27-2009, 08:58 AM   #4
Jack Tingle
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Originally Posted by GA Russell View Post
Have any of you jetBook owners noticed any difference in regard to eyestrain or reading difficulty with the jetBook LCD screen as opposed to eInk, with regard to reading for several hours at once?
I've never had any particular problems.

It's possible to overstrain your eyes with many kinds of reading material. Just follow your mother's advice ("Turn on some light, you'll strain your eyes reading in the dark.") and remember to not read for hours at a stretch. Take a break every hour or so. Also, don't use just a spot light on your reading material. Turn on some ambient, diffuse light as well, so your eyes aren't just looking at a single bright object. That can cause glare which will annoy you.

The jetBook's reflective LCD is no different from any other reading material in these respects. My suspicion is that many cases of eyestrain are caused by people using backlit, or exclusively lit material in dark rooms with no background lighting. If you wouldn't read a glossy National Geographic under a particular set of conditions, don't read your jetBook there either.

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