I've always found that one of the blacks, even up to charcoal and some grays was good enough for the background, and various white, greens, blues for the foreground worked pretty well. . .not to forget that some serious studies on dyslexia show such color arrangements make it much easier for many to read. mh On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Ricky Wong wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:23 AM, <a@aboq.org> wrote: On Monday, 28th February 2011 at 19:50:21 (GMT +0100), Marcello Perathoner wrote:
> The Google Nexus One makes a *much* better night reading device than the iPhone. > Being an LCD, you cannot dim the iPhone background to total darkness!
Why should this be everyone's preference? ;-) You know, even Stanza gives me the option to use "plain black" as my background colour... but pure black was too bleak even for my taste. ;-) As you can see from the screenshot: http://aboq.org/misc/GutMagic-iPad.png I purposefully chose a background texture (called "Red Satin" in Stanza) instead of a solid-colour background. So you can't really say categorically, Nexus One "is a much better night reading device" -- it all depends on your preferences and expectations. Although I agree being able to dim a screen's background to total darkness is a nice feature.
It's interesting that you choose a background like that because I always thought feature is too "gimmicky". Any reason why you pick a background like that rather one that is cleaner and easier on the readability? Is it more "fun" or have the background image match the right book topic etc...?
Also, the iPhone isn't really my night-reading device anyway; the iPhone is my lunch- or dinner-reading device, if there's no human company present. ;-) My night-reading device is the iPad, and of course the Nexus One's small screen is no match for the iPad's 9.7-inch screen. In fact, I heard Android users bemoaning the lack of a high-quality reading application for Android, the quality Stanza brings on iOS; and they were asking the Stanza developers to port Stanza for Android as well. But, the reply from Stanza folks was that, although they'd love to see Stanza available on all platforms, they currently lack the resources to make that possible. Like we mentioned, Stanza's development on its only platform, iOS, has been minimal since the takeover by Amazon.
(Now as to the battery-saving aspect: that is no concern given the iPad's 10-hour battery life, and the fact that users charge their iPads on a daily basis anyway.)
-- Yours, Alex. www.aboq.org
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