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Originally Posted by HarryT
The simple reason that you cannot backlight an eInk screen is that it's opaque - the light wouldn't shine through it. You can have side-lighting (as the Sony PRS-700 does) or front-lighting (as with clip-on lights), but you cannot have back-lighting.
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I believe most people who ask for "backlighting" actually mean just any kind of lighting, they just use the term because it's the one most often used.
The same happens with "smart quotes". People use that to mean "curly" or "oriented" quotes. The "smartiness" is only in the text processor that converts straight quotes into curly ones...