vlrny,
@vlrny@disabled.social avatar

Heya my #actuallyAustistic crew (or any #eReader nerdsz really)!

I wanna double check, does anybody have this eReader and can confirm you can turn the screen light OFF entirely?

I am replacing my old school one that is just a basic e-ink screen. I hate illuminated screens for reading; if I buy this thing and it glows at my eyeballs I will throw it through a frickin window.

https://ca.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-clara-2e

mutkitta,

@vlrny Only Kindles have had the inability to turn the light off completely.

All Kobos should be fine!

umpi,

@vlrny i have a kobo clara hd and you can turn its backlight completely off (as i always do, nowadays: i used it only in a period when i shared a room with a guy, to avoid disturbing him with the light of the abat-jour at night); so i guess you can turn it completely off on clara 2e too, that is its successor.

vlrny,
@vlrny@disabled.social avatar

In a side chat somebody suggested checking out #boox as well. So dropping a link to similar version here, in case anybody is lurking, looking for similar to my hunt.

https://shop.boox.com/products/page

#eReader #eInk

(And a thx to everybody's replies! 💖)

sheepnik,
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@vlrny I have a couple of Boox devices, and on both of them you can choose to not have the lights on at all. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about them.

slyyy,

@vlrny I don’t own this particular model of eReader, but this review seems to imply you can indeed turn off the backlight:

“With the backlight completely off the Clara 2E’s screen has a greyish hue usual to eReaders, with black text overlayed.”

https://www.techadvisor.com/article/1364904/kobo-clara-2e-review.html

vlrny,
@vlrny@disabled.social avatar

@slyyy Oh! Reading: "greyish hue usual to eReaders, with black text overlayed.” just dropped my BP 20points. This is comforting news!

vivekgani,
vlrny,
@vlrny@disabled.social avatar

@vivekgani This is very kind, but it makes me want to cry. I have very little cog available and am trying to push getting a new eReader through ...because reading is fundamental! fingersnaps

Desperately need some curation, have no capacity to wade through all that data on my own right now.

vivekgani,

@vlrny got it.

I'm guessing you can disable the fancy auto-adjust lighting "To manually adjust your ComfortLight PRO settings" :

https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017481174

vlrny,
@vlrny@disabled.social avatar

@vivekgani 👍

KarenStrickholm,
@KarenStrickholm@mastodon.online avatar

@vlrny

Through a frickin' window I love you for that!

Does going to black screen help? I have sensitive eyes and one of my solutions (unfortunately) is to purchase high-end devices. They tend to have best, most stable, most adjustable displays. Hope that helps!

vlrny,
@vlrny@disabled.social avatar

@KarenStrickholm ...also solidarity fistbump for the hurling of the visually vexatious. 🤜🤛

vlrny,
@vlrny@disabled.social avatar

@KarenStrickholm Yeah I do black screen on my phone apps a lot. It helps, but all illuminated screens are hard on my eyes and my soul.

Reading is my restful nurturing time. I can do physical books or an eReader, but using any other kind of tablet would be unpleasant.

Am trying to figure out if kobo's lovely darkmode comfort light bollocks can just be turned off.

KarenStrickholm,
@KarenStrickholm@mastodon.online avatar

@vlrny I use the Kindle white, I think it's called? Very soothing. Also those special antiglare reading glasses.

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