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User Submitted Cover with Custom Light Shield +2 Aaa Batteries Reviews (cont...)Date: 2009-01-25 Returning Mine Today This light was a great idea, and I really wanted to love it, but I just can't. I will be returning it today. At first glance, the light appears to be a nice heavy duty well-designed product. The thick frosted glass was obviously well thought out and probably the best option for reducing glare. However, after using my light for just one week to read 2 books, I just can't get used to what I now consider to be design flaws: 1. The frosted glass makes the text look dull and harder to read. I've had to change the text size to the largest setting to be able to get clear enough text to read comfortably. (If you prefer the largest size setting this may not be an issue to you.) Personally, I prefer less page turns to large text, so I really prefer to use one of the smaller text size settings. 2. Fingerprints, dust or any smudges at all on the glass create an annoying and very distracting dark shadow on the book. I've had to clean the glass thoroughly with window cleaner and a dust free cloth every day I've used it, and you have to be very careful when cleaning it so as to not make even more smudges. It seems to smudge very easily. 3. Since the glass doesn't actually attach to the screen or stay put where it is (a lock feature would have been nice), if you're going to read laying down, you have to hold the glass to the screen or it falls down or swings forward and you can't read through it. With the way the buttons are laid out on the side of the reader, holding the glass in place as you read is more awkward than you might imagine. Additionally, when you consider the fingerprint/smudge issue, this issue becomes even more of an annoyance. 4. Even when there are no smudges on the screen, the design causes dark shadows along the left margin of the "page." I can read okay through the dark patches, but I find them annoying and distracting. As I said, I really wanted to love this light. I even think that if the cost of the light was in the $20 range, I could get over the flaws and maybe get used to them over time, but with the cost of this light, I really expected more. I don't love the cheaper style books lights either, but at $40+ less, I think they're a better option at this point. Date: 2009-01-23 Digital book cover Great product. The light system makes it very easy to read. There is no shiny effect. It is just like you are reading pages from a book with no glare present. It arrived promptly and in great shape. Date: 2009-01-07 Great idea I absolutely love this product. Makes it easy to read at night and not disturb people by having a light turned on. Works great. Date: 2009-01-06 Sony ebook reader light Bought the Light shield for my wife when I purchased the Sony E-Book for a Christmas gift for her. She loves it. Does not produce a glare,covers the entire page, and stays with the ebook. The only complaint she has is that the shield shows every little smuge or fingerprint if it is not cleaned every time she uses it. Date: 2008-12-30 Functional but flawed I received this as a gift, but I was horrified when I looked at the cost. At 22% of the original cost of the book, it is way over-priced. Pros: -It actually does work. -Batteries last a long time. I've read two books using this most of the time. Cons: -Haze - like some other reviewers I noticed that the reader added something of a haze between the reader (person) and the reader (device). Strangely, I noticed it was actually EASIER to read through my greasy fingerprints. Recalling an episode of MacGyver, I proceeded to rub some oil on the back side of the transparent surface, resulting in a clearer image. Go figure. -Lighting is irritatingly inconsistent along the left edge -Nearly impossible to use the light when reading upside down. Or maybe nobody else does this? -If the transparent bit gets lifted off of the surface of the device, the text becomes somewhat blurred. This happens often when I flip the left cover all the way around so that it's not flapping in the breeze. I have found flapping to be preferable to blurry. -for OCDers like me, it's like theres a spotlight on every teeny tiny speck of dust on the face of the reader or the surface of the wedge. I end up wiping the thing clean at least once every half hour.
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