| ▲ | troupo 7 hours 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. |
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| ▲ | piskov 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It 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. |
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| ▲ | Krutonium 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Reflection means it's got no difference (or a negligable technically) difference in brightness. | | |
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| ▲ | adrianmonk 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I 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. |
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| ▲ | jchw 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Books 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. |
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| ▲ | Retr0id 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The retina can't tell the difference between reflected light and emitted light |
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| ▲ | cwillu 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Unless you're in the habit of reading your books with a flashlight, the context makes it very different. |
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