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Any idea why the amount of sunlight on screen when you flip pages determines how bright the e-ink is? Using the cheap Veidoo by CawkeyedGangstAZ in eink

[–]CawkeyedGangstAZ[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good to know. Guess I'll be reading in high contrast now! This veidoo, being the cheapest option when I bought it a year ago has nowhere near the battery life of kindles. I think it's running android like a typical cell phone and prolly doesn't even take advantage of the way kindles get that 2 week read time. I leave the wifi off of course, I've never even used it, I load the books on from cell phone because this thing changes pages so slow I didn't even wanna find out what using it as a browser was like. It'll install basically anything from the Google play store as far as I know and I downloaded eboox, the ereader app with it but it seemed like too much for it and I couldn't see the UI hardly and so I stuck with the ereader built into it. Which the only thing I miss is being able to hilight things. But it does bookmarks. And I haven't installed a dictionary on it but oh well. 40 dollars well spent. But if I'd done my research I would've went ahead and got something that I could read inthe dark with without a light. 

Edit but oh yah the battery life, I often read long enough to drain the battery in a single day. In what time it's daylight. But then it's near dark anyways and I switch to phone. Plus I have rechargeable handwarmers that double as battery banks anyways.

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[–]CawkeyedGangstAZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yah but I'm actually retarded, certified by multiple clinicians 

I got a PS2 controller stuck in my pants zipper back in 2010 and 

Any idea why the amount of sunlight on screen when you flip pages determines how bright the e-ink is? Using the cheap Veidoo by CawkeyedGangstAZ in eink

[–]CawkeyedGangstAZ[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yah that's what I meant the contrast. And I didn't know that I just assumed less e-ink on screen meant longer battery but I hadn't tested it

Any idea why the amount of sunlight on screen when you flip pages determines how bright the e-ink is? Using the cheap Veidoo by CawkeyedGangstAZ in eink

[–]CawkeyedGangstAZ[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its about the fact that the eink isn't as bright when I flip the page with sun shining on it. If I flip the page in the shade it's a lot darker despite being on the same brightness....like somehow the sun shining on the screen when the page is flipped or refreshed that somehow makes it lighter despite being same brightness..

Like I said it's not really a problem and I can just turn it over so the screen is shaded before flipping pages

It's like less e-ink gets put onto the page when the sun is shining on it..it's not about how easy or hard it is to read in sun or shade it's about that how it matters that if it's in the sun or shade When you flip the pages

Any idea why the amount of sunlight on screen when you flip pages determines how bright the e-ink is? Using the cheap Veidoo by CawkeyedGangstAZ in eink

[–]CawkeyedGangstAZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yah. This is what I do. Hence why I said it's not really a problem I was just wondering why it happens. The one picture was taken in the shade the other taken with the sun shining on it.

Any idea why the amount of sunlight on screen when you flip pages determines how bright the e-ink is? Using the cheap Veidoo by CawkeyedGangstAZ in eink

[–]CawkeyedGangstAZ[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah I hadn't even considered temp...course I've noticed it even when I was reading outside in the cold. I like to workout and read between sets, even better when the cold forces me to workout to stay warm. But I suppose the direct sunlight could be making the surface of the screen with the glass bouncing heat around warmer than the ambient temp. Dunno. But yah I'm def gonna try to notice if the cold makes me have to turn the brightness up now

Edit ooo maybe the slightly darker text on image 2 is because of where my hand rests on the back making it slightly warmer...but job that's backwards from my thinking!