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Eink doesn't emit light.
by BenjiWiebe 3mo ago
Eink doesn't emit light.
- yummybrainz 3mo agoMany Kindles have backlights for night-time reading!
- Tepix 3mo agoI think they're frontlights :-) But indeed it's a feature I cherish.
- nekooooo 3mo agothis is the worst kind of pedantic engineer comment that seems to infest this site. they're obviously talking about the frontlight. dark mode reflects much much less light back at the user through the lightguide because the dark bg absorbs more of the light.
- BenjiWiebe 3mo agoIt wasn't obvious. My thought process was that they were equating ereaders with eink displays, and they had a non-eink ereader. To me, emitting light and reflecting light are completely different. (I suppose I'm not supposed to feel complimented by the term 'engineer'? I'm not trained/experienced in any engineering discipline, not even software engineering.)
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- CWuestefeld 3mo agoIf you want pedantic ridiculousness, well, notice that I never said that the e-ink emits light. It does, however reflect light back from the device's frontlight. The device taken as a system most certainly emits light, but less so when in dark mode.
- BenjiWiebe 3mo agoVery true. Sorry for misreading your comment. I thought perhaps you had a non-eink ereader and were equating eink screens with ereaders. Apologies.