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Old 03-18-2023, 05:19 AM   #1
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On dark mode, does the Sage flash on every page turn?

I'm interested in buying the Kobo Sage and using dark mode for nighttime reading, but I've seen on some ereaders that when you turn each page, the refresh is bright, so you get this jarring flash.

Is this the case? And if so, is it annoying?

In general, how is the dark mode in your experience? Do you have an Onyx or Kindle you can compare to, regarding the dark mode?

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Old 03-18-2023, 04:05 PM   #2
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On my Sage, I don't notice the refresh flash at chapter transitions as being that annoying when in dark mode.
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All the latest Kobo devices (e.g., Libra 2, Clara 2E, Sage, Elipsa) feature nigtmode-specific waveform modes (i.e., it ghosts less, and it handles flashes in a slightly less terrible fashion). It's still crap, but it's the least crappy you can get .
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On onyx I turn off the flash and do a refresh manually when the ghosting is too much.
Maybe try koreader?
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Old 03-19-2023, 03:54 AM   #5
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On onyx I turn off the flash and do a refresh manually when the ghosting is too much.
Maybe try koreader?
Would that make a difference? I thought it was the hardware, that that's the way e-ink refreshes? I will try, thanks.

Anyway, I gather that it is what it is, as NiLuJe said. I do wonder if Kindle got it better, but Kindle don't have a device with an 8 inch screen anyway, and Kindle annoys me in many other ways. I'll go with the Kobo Sage.
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All the latest Kobo devices (e.g., Libra 2, Clara 2E, Sage, Elipsa) feature nigtmode-specific waveform modes (i.e., it ghosts less, and it handles flashes in a slightly less terrible fashion). It's still crap, but it's the least crappy you can get .

I was using dark mode on a rooted nook gl3 and there was very little flash or ghosting. My old onyx nova is much worse ghosting but manageable as I can refresh manually. So this concurs with your comment.

No idea about kobo, but I've heard no complaints and I've a friend that uses night mode on a libra 2. The Libra 2 is super popular.
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To my knowledge, the only devices that attempted to minimally deal with the flashing in nightmode issues *before* true eclipse waveforms were a thing were REAGL Kindles (i.e., PW2+), since FW 5.6.x. The caveat being they did not natively support nightmode at the time, so this only really mattered in KOReader .

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Old 03-19-2023, 02:24 PM   #8
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Do you need to do full refreshes more often in dark mode? I have my Libra set to refresh every 64 pages, so I almost never see a flash unless I use the dictionary. I don't use dark mode, though.
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Do you need to do full refreshes more often in dark mode? I have my Libra set to refresh every 64 pages, so I almost never see a flash unless I use the dictionary. I don't use dark mode, though.
By refresh I mean just turning the page. I didn't mean a full refresh. Apologies for not being clear.

I just ordered the Kobo Sage and looking forward to try it out.
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Do you need to do full refreshes more often in dark mode? I have my Libra set to refresh every 64 pages, so I almost never see a flash unless I use the dictionary. I don't use dark mode, though.
It depends. Dark mode results in an awful lot of ghosting on devices without proper waveform modes, and the usual recommendation to clear ghosting is more flashes... but flashes are also awful in dark mode on those devices (except for the Kindle range I described above, iff you're using KOReader).

So, you're kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place on those devices, unless you like ghosting or annoying stuttery blinding flashes ;o).
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All the latest Kobo devices (e.g., Libra 2, Clara 2E, Sage, Elipsa) feature nigtmode-specific waveform modes (i.e., it ghosts less, and it handles flashes in a slightly less terrible fashion). It's still crap, but it's the least crappy you can get .
I use dark mode on a Forma and I don't notice ghosting or flashes during page turns. There is excessive flashing on chapter transitions. When I use dark mode, I'm reading in close to completely dark environment.

There probably is ghosting, but I don't notice it. I'm just reading text/fiction.
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There is excessive flashing on chapter transitions
To be perfectly clear: When I say "flashes", I am, and always have been, talking about the explicit flashing refreshes (i.e., what you set in your Reading Settings), which probably defaults to "every chapter" on a Forma (another popular default setting is every 6 pages).

And, yeah, those are awful in nightmode when unsupported, they feel like a kind of stuttery double blinding flash, it's weird and extremely irritating. That's what I've been talking about in this thread.

Non-flashing refreshes (i.e., the vast majority of them) will just ghost more (because standard waveform modes are explicitly tweaked for black on white), there's no other extra weirdness associated to nightmode there.

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There probably is ghosting, but I don't notice it.
There definitely is, and you definitely don't and/or it doesn't bother you (which is a perfectly valid assessment, mind you. *I* happen to hate it with a fiery passion, but that's me).

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There definitely is, and you definitely don't and/or it doesn't bother you (which is a perfectly valid assessment, mind you. *I* happen to hate it with a fiery passion, but that's me).
We all have different thresholds. I remember it being much worse in early eink readers.

I don't like to compare ebooks to pbooks, but ... looking at a couple of pbooks, the bleed through from next/previous pages on pbooks looks worse then ghosting on ebooks, to me.
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