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Does anyone find it difficult to use a kindle (eg sensory difficulties, autism, or just generally) esp if you love paper.

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Goodberry · 26/05/2020 17:44

I was wondering whether anyone who is sensitive to some other things such as screens or some kinds of light, has difficulties with a kindle- is it significantly easier to tolerate than say computer or phone screens. I have never owned a kindle but am thinking of buying a kindle paperwhite, but really don't enjoy reading my computer or phone version of kindle. I much, much prefer books and printed paper and find the info hard to digest from the screens I currently have. I will use it to read scientific articles therefore I believe I need to get the one with wifi.

When I do read it on the computer or phone I can only really tolerate a sepia background and wondered whether the paperwhite kindle sort of comes closer to that than stark white. Or, can you choose a sort of greyer and more faded font than black.

I also like to read in a tiny font and wondered whether you can scroll up and down a page for instance to look at the photo on a scientific article, or does the kindle fix the page size and all you can do is turn the page.

I thought about an amazon fire tablet but think the screen will have much the same quality as my existing devices. However it would let me choose sepia. But I suppose it will have worse battery life.

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HotWatBot · 08/06/2020 06:52

Great 🙂.

I'm not sure about the highlighting I'm afraid, I don't tend to use it.

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