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Originally Posted by pruss
Here are photos taken by putting the Fire under a microscope.
Notice how nice the Landscape letters look with no color shadows. But in all other modes, the results are terrible. The worst of all is reversed landscape (landscape with power button on left): you can see a nasty red shadow on the left of the long vertical of the "h" and a nasty blue shadow on the right. Portrait and reversed portrait aren't quite so terrible, but are pretty bad (and I think especially bad if you turn on night mode and look at white text on a black background). You can see that the portrait and reversed portrait "h" has the red and green subpixels turned on and the blue subpixels muted on the left of the long vertical stroke, which results in an orange shadow. This works perfectly in the landscape "h" where the darkened blue subpixel merges visually into the vertical and the red and green ones merge into the white beside it, and that was the assumption on which the font renderer was working.
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Wow, that is really noticeable when you blow it up like that. I wouldn't be surprised if that really would bother my eyes if I read for very long like that. Oddly enough, this is the first reader I've had that I read almost exclusively in landscape mode, so I haven't noticed any issues. I'm lazy, so I've just been propping it on the arm of the chair or on the nearest cat to read.