Kindle Vs. Kindle Fire

[tsolomon]

Originally Posted by CigarNut

It may be counter-intuitive but using a back-lit screen in the dark is actually harder on your eyes and causes more eye-strain then using a book light on a book (or Kindle).

My wife has an iPad and I have a Kindle and I have the Kindle app for the iPad. The iPad sucks as an e-reader. Glossy, back-lit screens are too limiting and cause too much eyestrain. The iPad and Kindle are both good at what they do but I don't think it makes sense to use them where they are not so good...

This really isn't about the iPad but the Kindle Fire that the OP was asking about. I can't comment on the eye strain with the iPad as I don't use it as an an e-reader, but I did find this ZDNet article on it.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/ipa...e-reader/12719