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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
Yes, with the backlight the light source shines (color-filtered) directly into the eyes, with the frontlight you only see the reflection of the light - that is an enormous qualitative difference.
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Would you have any research to back it up? From my own, admittedly very limited, experience my eyes tire quicker with the frontlight on. (I almost never use it, though.) I have also read of people here on the forums and on reddit suffering from eye strain issues; the consensus seems to be that e-ink solves this problem, but only with the frontlight deactivated. This wouldn't surprise me, considering that the frontlight lights up a dark room about as much as a backlight does.
Still, it would be interesting to read research on this topic. Maybe that is a bit much to hope for. The research I have seen seems to conclude that LCD screens are no more tiring than e-ink, which is a ridiculous conclusion. (If, however, they tested this with the frontlight on and the above description holds true it might actually be a valid result.)