Well, technically eink displays don’t have backlight but frontlight.
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ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 days agoCan’t you get backlit e-ink displays? Don’t kindles have them?
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago anguo@piefed.ca 2 days ago
Don’t know why you’re getting down voted for this, you’re technically correct, the best kind of correct!
- Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Hehe
anguo@piefed.ca 2 days ago
Yes, e-readers nowadays have a “frontlight”, a fiber otic mesh overlaid on top of the display. But the list of materials they provide doesn’t have anything that would provide this light.