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Personally, I try not to use screens for a few hours before going to bed. Before bedtime, I limit myself to my e-ink book reader.

The idea of having a screen on my wrist doesn't particularly appeal to me.

My partner has one and when they turn over in bed, I am sometimes blinded by the screen which still glows brightly even at the lowest setting in complete darkness.

That's why I'm considering a e-ink watch. The reason I didn't commit yet is that I fear that notifications and such before bedtime could be just as harmful to my nightline peacefulness.



> notifications and such before bedtime could be just as harmful to my nightline peacefulness.

If you have an Android, you can set Do Not Disturb mode on a schedule.


“Focus” achieves the same thing for iOS.


You may also find interesting that in this release update he mentiones that the backlight LED is now RGB and they are toying with ideas like making the backlight blue light aware at nights, etc.


This would be interesting. I was gifted a Kindle with backlighting recently after my old first generation one broke. The backlight is useless to me because it shines blue, so I just use a candle.


FWIW, my PocketBook (Touch HD3) can shine in red. It has a most horrible book store though and microusb charging. Not sure what newer models offer.


Recent Kindles have a warm light feature to avoid this problem




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