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> I’ve never met a person saying he hates books and wishes they were white on black. Books don't emit light. They reflect it. That's the difference.
by troupo 10mo ago
> I’ve never met a person saying he hates books and wishes they were white on black.
Books don't emit light. They reflect it. That's the difference.
- piskov 10mo agoIt doesn’t matter what the source is (unless you have crt days flicker, bad tn panel polarization or what have you). Irritation comes from the difference in brightness.
- Krutonium 10mo agoReflection means it's got no difference (or a negligable technically) difference in brightness.
- orbital-decay 10mo agoMy mirror disagrees.
- Retr0id 10mo agoThe retina can't tell the difference between reflected light and emitted light
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- cwillu 10mo agoUnless you're in the habit of reading your books with a flashlight, the context makes it very different.
- adrianmonk 10mo agoI think that reinforces their point if anything. With reflected light, you have a natural, inherent form of auto-brightness because the amount of light coming off the page depends on the amount of light in the room.
- jchw 10mo agoBooks are not designed to reproduce colors though, and monitors are. If you have aggressive auto-brightness settings, that wouldn't actually make a monitor appear more like a book, it would just make it so the stuff that is actually supposed to look blisteringly white is merely mild. Which, sure, is an improvement for eye strain, but it's more of a workaround than a solution, and since it would muck up color reproduction a lot of users couldn't do this all the time anyways.