On 09/06/2010, at 1:52 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:

> 
> We have a Macbook, used principally by my wife, and currently she is studying 
> an eBook.  Annoyingly the Macbook screen darkens after a short interval of 
> inactivity, while reading, prior to the eventual onset of sleep as set in 
> Energy Saver.   I have not been able to find any way to stop or lengthen 
> this.   I realise it is there for a very good battery conservation reason but 
> would like to circumvent it temporarily.
> Any suggestions please?

Hi Severin,

Have you unchecked in System Prefs > Energy Saver "Automatically reduce 
brightness before display goes to sleep"?

Cheers,
Ronni

17" MacBook Pro  Intel Core i7
2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm

OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)






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