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E-Ink’s brightness is naturally proportional to ambient lighting. From indoors to bright sunshine.

Their brightness can also be conveniently, even subconsciously controlled, by how they are held.

LCDs can be dimmed and brightened, but matching the E-Inks “response” in both brightness and contrast over a high range of ambient lighting would be difficult. Probably impossible without an LCD specifically designed to do that.



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