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Kindle Paperwhite - White on Black?
On my iPhone Kindle App, there is the facility available to have white text on a black background. I now have a Paperwhite, but cannot see this capability. Is it not included, or have just not found it?
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On my iPhone Kindle App, there is the facility available to have white text on a black background. I now have a Paperwhite, but cannot see this capability. Is it not included, or have just not found it?
The way the Kindle works isn't really suited to that inversion. |
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Not sure I follow that, as the Paperwhite is backlit as well, isn't it?
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Not sure I follow that, as the Paperwhite is backlit as well, isn't it?
It's the difference between holding a torch at the bottom of a piece of paper to light it up, or having the torch behind a translucent piece of paper and shining into your eyes. |
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Originally Posted by Amazon
Paperwhite guides light towards the display from above instead of projecting it out at your eyes like back-lit displays, thereby reducing screen fatigue.
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Not sure I follow that, as the Paperwhite is backlit as well, isn't it?
Athough the reason is less the light than the screen type. A LCD screens pixels can produce any colour and can switch colours in a fraction of a second. Eink can't do this and actually even after a page refresh you can still see a slight imprint of the previous page if you look really hard. It would have to produce a page of almost solid black apart from the text and when it then changes page it could cause issues with it not being clear to read |
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OK, thanks folks. I didn't know about this system but I think I just about get it know. Sounds very complicated, but I guess all this modern technology is.
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