Really bright screens are nice and everything, but I'd like to see screens that had realy dim minimum brightness. Like realy REALY dim minimum brightness.
I like to read in the dark just before I go to sleep, and when everything is pitch black, even dim displays are blinding. There are of course, displays with no backlight, but those are obviously useless in pitch black. What I need is a display that has a backlight, but can be set really dim so it's almost, but not quite off.
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I think this is where backlit e-ink displays really excel. The Kindle Paperwhite is extremely readable at night without causing me eyestrain.
@OpenComputeDesign I have one e-ink reader with no backlight, and my attempted solution for reading in the dark with it is one of the 'neck lamps'. Not sure it's the best/most convenient solution though.
My other e-ink reader does have a backlight and it's very different experientially from the light coming from an lcd. And you can set it very dim - at least on my device.
I really like the Kobo eink readers and you can pick up older ones used (which what I've done in all cases) for not too much.
(I always recommend Koreader [ https://koreader.rocks ] as side-loadable software on e-ink related posts:- it's free, gratis, and works on most e-ink readers and seems better than any stock software.)
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My other e-ink reader does have a backlight and it's very different experientially from the light coming from an lcd. And you can set it very dim - at least on my device.
I really like the Kobo eink readers and you can pick up older ones used (which what I've done in all cases) for not too much.
(I always recommend Koreader [ https://koreader.rocks ] as side-loadable software on e-ink related posts:- it's free, gratis, and works on most e-ink readers and seems better than any stock software.)
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@emacsomancer @Demosthenes Thanks! I'll look at picking up a kobo ereader. Koreader looks pretty cool!
@OpenComputeDesign Some of the older ones take microsd cards and though they claim you can only put up to 32Gb cards in, you really put at least 256Gb cards in. And some of the older ones you can open up and the whole system is just on a microsd card, so you can easily take that card out and clone that to a bigger card and expand the partition. So you could really put a *huge* library on these older ones. (I take advantage of that myself - sure, epubs take up barely any space, most of them, but pdfs can be big.)
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@Demosthenes I've had two e-ink e-readers, but neither had a backlight, I haven't gotten a backlit e-ink e-reader because I figured it'd be the same brightness of an lcd, but if they can be set really dim, I may have to get one! Currently I use a Palm Vx, which has a fairly dim green Electroluminensent backlight, but even it's too bright, so I'd be happy to try another device. Thanks!