How do you not get eye strain?

[SolRaven]

Originally Posted by jswinden

The OP cannot even read the manual and figure out how to turn down the brightness and use reader themes, you actually expect rooting to be an option?

Who reads manuals anymore?? If I want answers, I go online. Most of my manuals don't have any useful information anyways. I just bought a car alarm. No where in the manual does it say how to program any of the buttons, it just tells us how to use it, which is pretty obvious.

Both of our Droids are rooted; it wasn't in the manual.

[forkyfork]

I experience eye strain, too. While I have not personally used the nook color for any length of time, I have used an iPad, iPhone, Nintendo DS, and LCD monitor, and I experience eye strain on all of them.

I currently solve that problem by using computer glasses to help reduce glare.

I do, however, use my iPhone on 50% brightness. Am I correct by inferring from this thread that if I turn the brightness all the way up, I will experience less eye strain? I don't use my computer glasses all the time - only when at home - so it would be nice to solve this problem.

[noaxis2]

Originally Posted by madsquabbles

i've always been sensitive to bright lights. for my ebook reading black on white is just too harsh, i actually have to use red text and black background at a low setting. day reading is also at a low backlight and with a tannish/natural white bg with brown type. i don't think i've ever set my brightness to over 40% yet, though i've not read outside yet.

I'm sensitive to bright lights also...TV, computer...all set to minimum brightness...where I can still see! Never thought of trying a different color text on dark background. Didn't know I could further lower the brightness within the reader.

Of course, since I'm rooted, I don't really use the native reader...but maybe Aldiko, Moon or Coolreader has that feature.