UPDATE : The Kindle app indeed has a brightness command . It is entomb under the font adjustment fare alternative . Got ta say , points off for crappy UI design on Amazon ’s part , but I indeed stand corrected . Thanks to everyone who show it out .
Apple may have built a great LCD - based reader , but when it come to favour its iBooks app over other reading programs , they ’re recreate dirty consortium : The in - app light control pee a topnotch - faint , extra - well-fixed screen — but only in iBooks .
The logical argument against LCD ebook referee generally orb around backlighting : Too much bombards the centre and make strain . I have incur that at night , I ’m most comfortable reading only with the backlight , go out my nightstand off . But I only am able to do this in iBooks , because only there can I reach the tiptop - depressed brightness setting that makes sense in an otherwise dark room . The Kindle app does n’t have this ascendency , and has to trust on the system of rules setting , which is far smart . That ’s why I ’m shout foul : If this is n’t some kind of measured strategic advantage , why not just let the system brightness control go that dim ?
It should be abundantly clear from these shaft — all taken in succession in the same location in a indistinctly get down way using the same manual options on a Canon T1i — that the iBooks vantage is tremendous . The only motion is , will Apple offer its in - app brightness control as an API for developer or will it keep it for itself , in hopes that the subconscious issue on readers will somehow translate into increase record book sales ? Only Jobs knows .
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