One of the best reasons to get one of the newerKindle PaperwhiteeReaders is for its warm light feature. Activating it changes the white balance of the Kindle’s screen, allowing for a less piercing, more comfortable reading experience, especially at night and in the dark. It’s one of the hallmark features of the latest Paperwhite Kindle, and as an owner of such a Kindle, I can tell you, it’s quite nice.
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Activating the screen’s color temperature is fairly simple, even for beginners, as you’re able to access it from any screen on your Kindle. If you want to avoid setting the color temperature every single day, you can set the Kindle to do it for you. We’ll show you how to do that and go over the manual method as well, so you know all the ways you can adjust the color temperature.
How to schedule warm light on your Kindle Paperwhite
While it’s not a huge bother to adjust the light temperature manually, you can also set it to work automatically, so you don’t have to do it every time your daylight begins to fade. Here’s how to schedule, so your Kindle’s screen activates a warmer hue automatically.
Once done, your Kindle will adjust the color every day at the prescribed time and return it to its normal status at the other time. you’re able to safely exit the Warmth Schedule menu and return to your Kindle.
How to adjust the color temperature on your Kindle manually
Here’s how to manually adjust the color temperature on your Kindle.
It realistically only takes about 10 to 15 seconds to adjust this setting, but we get it if you want it to happen automatically instead.
Why is it a good idea to use warm light?
The short version is that blue light has the capacity to be harder on your eyes, especially if you spend all day looking at screens. Long-term exposure might cause eye strain and, according tomedical sources, may inhibit sleep, although this seems to be strongly determined on a person-by-person basis. The eye strain thing is legitimate, though, and that’s why a warmer light is a good idea. you’re able to read more comfortably without adding further strain to your eyes.
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There are several studies that have shown thatpeople find warm light more comfortable, especially for reading. Despite popular opinion, LEDs are capable of producing warm light, and your Kindle Paperwhite is one very good example.
Which Kindle e-readers come with warm light settings?
The list below is the current list of Kindles with warm light abilities as of writing.
Future Kindle Paperwhite, Oasis, and Scribe devices are likely to retain the feature. The 2022 base Kindle doesn’t have the feature, but we wouldn’t be shocked if the next refresh included warm lighting as well.
Is a Kindle with the warm light worth the upgrade?
As someone who’s used both types of Kindles, all I can tell you is that it’s up to you. For me, I work on a computer and my phone all day, so the warm light is more comfortable on nights when I decide to read. However, I also didn’t upgrade my prior Kindle in a decade, so I benefited from other enhancements as well, like a larger, sharper screen, faster page turns, and more storage.
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If you have the prior generation Kindle Paperwhite, and you’re thinking of going one generation up, it’s a much tougher call than it was for me. To see if you prefer blue light filters, turn on the blue light filter on your smartphone, which most smartphones have these days. If you find that you like the warmer hue, then you’ll probably like the warm light feature on a newer Kindle.
