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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
I spent the last weekend in hospital. My wife brought me a paper novel and my Sony. Although I started with the Sony, I quickly went to the paper book. The dim lighting in hospitals is not appropriate for eink. And when you're drowning in pain, carried by morphine, you easily go for the more practical; at that time paper was. Paper is less at a risk of being stolen too because most people hate reading but they do love their gadgetlust...
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Which is why 90% of my reading is done on a backlit device. I generally read in darker areas, almost never in well-lit areas. And the e-ink works perfectly in well-lit areas, but not that well in dimmer lit areas.