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Originally Posted by Tiersten
Strange that you're seeing such a difference. My Kindle 3 doesn't look anything like your photo of the text and is significantly darker.
I don't have a Sony PRS so I can't compare and this is just a photo of the default font on the home screen but I don't see how it could be as faded as your screenshots show. Its just a quick photo with my compact digital camera so probably not the best ever. You sure your Kindle isn't faulty?
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To whose pictures are you referring? Mine are quite accurate, but a few people who contacted me about them somehow did not realize that the bottom-
left was the Kindle, and not the bottom-right, which was the older PRS-505.
Your photo looks very similar to mine, though mine displays a font that is likely both smaller than yours (it is 11pt, as the caption says, sized to match the paper books), and a different font which is not as blocky and bold as Caecilia (Palatino, as the caption says, chosen to match the paper books).
Personally, I'm not a big fan of Caecilia, and much prefer other fonts. I don't even like Palatino really, but it was the only easy font I could find at home that I had in both Hardcover and paperback at the same size for comparison.
My preference for fonts on E-Ink will remain Arno Pro (SmText), Chaparral Pro (Caption), and Garamond Premier Pro (Caption), but in slightly larger sizes, I can also use standard weights of both of those fonts, along with other fonts I enjoy like Maiola, Jenson, and Warnock. I'll have to wait until the resolution goes up before I can use Centaur MT and other such fonts, but many of those I listed here were just not really readable enough for me to tolerate on older Vizplex, so Pearl has has really allowed me to diversify my PDF typesetting choices.
addendum: I checked both my snap and yours, comparing the average of the text against the background. Adjusted for overall luminosity, the contrast between the background and text is almost exactly the same.