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Originally Posted by Ea
Skin. It's through your skin.
Back to topic, yes, if you sit outside in tropical latitudes, I can definitely understand you want a dark reader. But.... that brings another potential problem: overheating of the device. At least in direct sunlight. I guess it would be all right if you read in the shade.
Added: I don't know how you can stand the heat of the sun. Sunlight is wonderful but temperatures over 25 C is just too much.
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Actually, to be honest you are not exactly correct here. Think back to your biochem courses as well as neuro phys courses...you will have learned that the eyes are typically the primary source of creating vitamin D because we are almost always covered in clothes blocking the skins ability to also convert sunlight into vitamin-D. Do a bit of research if need be.
Now about your fear of overheating...you have got to be kidding? I supposed in 100F weather sure but that is out of the safe range and even an 8F day would be fine given the tolerances of a hardware being well over what is listed. And I believe the K1 is from 32F to 93F so a 75F day as we had today represents no threat to melt a reader no matter how black. Remember the device is actually powered down most of the time and only powers up when changing something on the screen. There is some power to the buttons and other input components to allow response to events, but the CPU is powered way down and is generating very little heat same for the graphic subsystem.
it might be different on the el Cheapo brand-x devices but I have faith the major brands are just fine. Remember this, the designs of these devices take into account outdoor reading and an eink device is not exactly great in the shade.
If you cannot tell, I am not in the Chicken Little school of thought and have not been wrong for over 30-yrs of owning computers and portables since about 1983...never had one fail the "smoke test".
