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Originally Posted by pcinfoman
I don't really get this. it is an electronic device, right? it displays information on the screen, right? Then not putting a backlight on it does not make sense to me. I think I will have to find a place that has one I can actually hold.
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I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the technology.
LCD screens have transparent coloured pixels which you can shine light through. eInk screens don't - they have fluid-filled cells containing little capsules which are white on one side and black on the other side. Charge the cell one way and the capules rotate to show their white side; charge it the other way and the capsules show their black side. The screen is entirely opaque. You can't shine light through it. You can no more "backlight" an eInk screen than you can backlight, say, a whiteboard. It's just not transparent.
You have to see it to appreciate it. It's completely different to an LCD screen. It looks like a piece of light grey paper on which words just "appear".