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Originally Posted by badbob001
I don't understand the mention of how a backlit screen is better in a dark setting. When I'm a passenger in a vehicle, it's night, and I try to read on my phone, it's is way way too blinding, even with the backlight at its lowest level. If I use my computer at night with the lights off, it's too bright and I can't imagine putting a backlit screen a foot from my face to read in bed. I would think indirect lighting would be best in a dark environment.
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There's a difference between dim lighting and dark.
Reading in the dark is bad on any thing--it's hard on the eyes to read in the dark with a real book with a little book light, or e-ink or an LCD.
But in dim lighting where you have to strain a bit to see a book or e-ink, a backlit device is easier on the eyes with the backlighting at the proper setting. i.e. reading with just a lamp on a few feet away etc. Which is pretty common in apartments, condos etc. which almost never have ceiling lights. You either huddle under a lamp, or need something brighter to sit say in the middle of the couch etc.
Not everyone one needs that of course--just like many of us never read in sunlight and don't care about that drawback of LCD etc. Everyone has their own needs.