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by LEDThereBeLight 1382 days ago
You might look into QLED, RLCD, or E-ink monitors. There’s a lot of posts online about how they reduce eye strain or that you just don’t feel the “glare” that you normally get from looking at a screen. I use a QLED monitor for programming and an e-ink monitor for reading papers / anything static, and it makes a big difference. But, they’re expensive. I wouldn’t do it if I weren’t in software and looking at a screen constantly.
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Do you have any recommendations for e ink monitors?

Also, are there any good e ink tablets?

I don’t know of any e-ink tablets. As far as e-ink monitors, I did a fair amount of research and landed on a Dasung 13.3”. It’s small compared to a normal monitor, so you’re not going to be split-paning VSCode and a terminal, it’s $1000, and it’s not good for things that move around a lot (you’ll have to use the etch-a-sketch-type clear screen button pretty often), but it is actually pretty good for reading PDFs, docs, etc etc which I end up spending a lot of time doing. Reading any more than a page on a normal monitor is just such a pain, I start to lose focus pretty quickly. Monitor arms that let you move them around easily helps a lot too, so it’s not sitting in front of your face while you’re coding. So it all costs money, but does work pretty well (for me at least).