Late Night iPad Reading Could Keep You Up at Night

I've had a similar problem with an iMac, and it can happen to you, from the late-night use of any computer/tv screen that emits light, or simply a bright reading light. I've taken to wearing yellow sunglasses when working on the iMac late at night, which, according to their research, inhibit the blue light spectrum responsible for melatonin suppression (the old "Blue Blockers" brand). There is also a company online which sells yellow glasses and clingy film for your computer screens, but I don't recall the name. I'm not an employee of either company, nor do I profit from any sales. But I do sleep better!

I wonder who came up with this story... Uh.... KINDLE (Amazon) Nook (Boarders) maybe?...LOL

The Nook is from Barnes & Noble, not Borders. Boarders, by the way, are people who rent a room from you. Like Room & Board.

The iPad and some recent laptops like the iMac use LED's instead of a florescent tube for illuminating the screen. These have less of an impact on one's bio cycle than fluorescents (CCFL's). Unless this blue component of screen light is bothering just as its blue no matter the source of the light.

Oh and Boarders is more often a term used to refer to SURF Boarders or Body Boarders. People who rent from you are called TENANTS or RENTERS. DUH

I always fall asleep with the lights on when I read. I doubt it hurts me.

The iPad is just another useless toy that everyone wants so they can say "Hey look I have an iPad." What another useless piece of junk.

You can turn off the bright screen(black letters on white background) and read white letters on black background. That is what I have been doing. I find the screen too bright for reading at night otherwise. Of course they don't mention that!!

A. It's hard to comprehend the importance of debating the use and spelling of Borders/boarders when the article is about an iPad and its effect on sleep....
B. there will always be people who are either so addicted to their toy or the brand that they will attempt to defend it somehow despite evidence to the contrary because their identity is unfortunately fused with their choice of purchase
(unless you're a conspiracy nut who connects the UCLA Sleep Disorder Clinic with Amazon by some wierd internal logic)
C. Clearly part of the message is simple:
1. don't use it at night
2. only screens in close proximity have the effect to that degree
3. all screens that emit that kind of light have that effect even if it's only the tv
4. the question I'm still left with is: what if melatonin isn't the sleep inducer (I've attempted to take melatonin to enhance my sleeping and in my system it's actually keeping me awake)

Strange, I find bright lights of TV put me in some sort of a trance and I fall asleep.

Johnson's summary has a real odor to it. The source from which he lifted the story is the LA Times (link). The Times story said that Wall Street Journal found no difference in light effect between iPad and other e-readers. Curious that Johnson somehow "forgot" to include that little factoid. So, who paid him to do so?

Next: Elin said "Boarders, by the way, are people who rent a room from you. Like Room & Board." - 'Digi,'The words "tenants" and "renters" are usually used to refer to people who rent private rooms or apartments with their own facilities - "boarders" is more often used to refer to people who rent a small space, usually a single room, and take their meals ("board") with the landlord/lady and family, as well as other boarders (this definition predates surfboards by many, many years). Hence: "room and board." Generally, to distinguish one from another, surfboarders and body boarders are referred to as "surfboarders" or "bodyboarders," except within a community of same, who may refer simply to "boarders," because they all know what the reference is to.


Oh, no! I ended a sentence with a preposition! This is something up with which we shall not put!