Dan Fixes Coin-OpsJul 25, 2023

Y'know I'd love love LOVE an e-reader with a red light.

Not a warm white light, not an orange light, not a yellow light; a RRRED light. Like, the colour red. As in red LEDs.

Decades of insomnia only alleviated by using a rooted phone with a red-subpixels-only option have ruined me for anything else.

Show threadDan Fixes Coin-OpsJul 25, 2023
(and I resent that to get Proper Night Mode on a phone you've got to root it, that really should be a legally mandated requirement on anything with a screen tbh)
Show threadDan Fixes Coin-OpsJul 25, 2023

Out of all the e-ink e-readers ever made, guess how many you can read at night without throwing your melatonin secretion all out of whack and keeping you awake? Zero. Not a single one. Even though it'd be easy as hell. Even though out of all the LED colours, red is the cheapest and uses the least energy.

What the hell, ereader manufacturers?

Show threadkelbot ◖⎚∠⎚◗Jul 25, 2023
@ifixcoinops I wonder if you could get enough juice from the usb port to rig up a red led that just points at the display :-P.
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@kelbot A light bright enough to light the screen evenly without lighting the whole room is a big ask for a clip-on. I'm not getting out of this predicament without getting me soldering iron out am I :P
Jul 25, 2023 at 9:14pmWeb