On 02/28/2011 01:53 PM, a@aboq.org wrote:
The above screenshots show Stanza in "night-mode". That's because I read e-books on my Kindles in day-time, and in Stanza after it gets dark. One touch of a button, and Stanza can switch between "night-mode" and "day-mode". My day-mode in Stanza looks like this:
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! There's always a gray background left. And the transition from the gray background to the black of the night off-screen acts as a border. Thus you cannot set the margins to zero because the gray-to-black border then touches the text annoying the hell out of you. On the Nexus, being an OLED screen, black is black, and in complete darkness there is no discernible transition between on-screen and off-screen. You can zero all margins without disturbing border artefacts jumping your eyes. You can dim the text just right for reading in complete darkness. Because only the lit pixels consume any energy, and they are few and dim, battery lasts forever. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org