Forum Power - Before It's Too Late

[astra]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I find that in any "normal" light conditions the Reader's screen is just fine. Drastically reducing the battery life would - IMHO - take away one of the Reader's key benefits; the exceptional battery life.

Any light in which one can read a paper book, one can also read the Reader. It's a "book substitute", so that's just fine with me.

I second to it.

[NatCh]

An excellent point, and I don't disagree. But I also think that a built-in front-light would be really cool.

[markiehill]

does anybody remember the green backlight of the original palm's ? This would be ideal for reading in the dark , and was it not really low power, i seem to remember my little palm ran forever .....

Mark

[kelchm]

Originally Posted by markiehill

does anybody remember the green backlight of the original palm's ? This would be ideal for reading in the dark , and was it not really low power, i seem to remember my little palm ran forever .....

Mark

EL backlights are relatively low power, but I'd guesstimate that a modern LED based backlight would have about the same efficiency. The real problem with EL backlights is that they tend to to fair well with extended usage.