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by snogglethorpe 4292 days ago
Can you turn off the frontlight on the Voyager?

[It was a slight annoyance of the PW that you could never entirely turn off the light, just turn the brightness way down.]

Or, even better, is there a physical button to turn off the light (as on [some models of] the Kobo)...?
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geoelectric 4291 days ago
I don't think this is known, but I'll be surprised if it has more capability in that regard than the PW.

I can't see the PW light at minimum in a room with any lighting, though, and can't read the PW without lighting.

Aside from the probably-negligible battery use, what use case is it breaking aside from pet-peeve?

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snogglethorpe 4291 days ago
> Aside from the probably-negligible battery use, what use case is it breaking aside from pet-peeve?

I just hate the look of the PW's backlight. The color is a sort of sickly blue, and I actually hate the evenness of it, it loses any sense of being a reflective matte surface which is one of eink's great strengths.

At absolute minimum setting, the PW's light is basically dim enough to be acceptable, but the Voyager's press descriptions, which are emphasizing the brighter light intensity etc, are making me nervous that Amazon is doubling-down on backlighting (er, "frontlighting") and giving up on the idea of a good-contrast reflective display...

[I certainly recognize that in many cases, a light is very useful, but I really want it to be an option that I can turn on when it's handy, and turn off when it's not. I don't want eink to become just yet another light-emitting display tech...]

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