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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Of course, everybody has to try before they really know. I guess most people have LCD/LED screens with different resolutions all around them, including the ubiquitous iPhone 4+, so they can get a pretty good idea if they can adjust to reading on a backlit device.
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But that's just it. People extrapolate their experience with flickery CRT monitors and low-resolution LCD monitors playing videos with high-resolution (the ppi kind of resolution) flicker-free reader devices displaying static text. "Oh man, I stare at a computer screen all day and my eyes hurt. I won't do that for reading." Except that experience is completely unrelated to reading on an LCD device designed for reading (aka, not the iPad 1 or 2).
It doesn't help that the default configurations for LCD readers are optimized for store displays and fancy demos, where white-on-black text and high brightness helps sell the unit. If someone pulled out their iPad while in bed with the lights off and got blinded by default iBooks, I wouldn't blame them for not wanting to read on an LCD. But if they took the time to reduce the brightness (below what the auto-dimming does) and switch to a night reading mode, more often than not they'll find that they can read quite comfortably for a long time. Or at least until they fall asleep
