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Originally Posted by Kitabi
With Nook's 1.5 firmware, the background has darkened a bit but it is nowhere close to Kindle's gray.
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No, that's a visual illusion or imagination.
I own two nooks and after upgrading one of them I compared them side by side. There's absolutely no difference in brightness nor color (it's still cream-beige).
Additionally the changes to produce darker text are only enabled in the reader app. Switching between reader and librabry therefore should change the background brightness/color. But that's not the case as there is absolutely no change in the inert (white) areas in the display.
I've used my colorimeter to measure the black and white levels before and after upgrading my second nook and there is NOT any difference. The brightness is unchanged and even the darkness in the black areas is unchanged. There is only one modification: the text in the reader app is bolder now and therefore appears darker. In bright environments the difference (illusion) is hardly perceivable, but with dimmed lights the difference is clearly visible.
True is: pearl displays produce darker blacks (6-8%), the white areas are as bright as on recent vizplex (vizplex is in fact brighter while measuring, but only at places after the comma and hardly visible), but the color of the "white" is more gray than beige (I like the vizplex-beige more than the pearl-gray). The difference in contrast is mainly (and simply) achived through bolder fonts. That's the hole magic (compare K2/K3 or 505/650), the text is bolder on pearl devices).