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Originally Posted by Alisa
I think the pictures they use have probably been optimized for the Kindle. That's probably why the picture viewer is disabled and they won't let you load your own screensavers. Most regular pictures just aren't going to look good with four-level grayscale.
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I think the reverse is true, I think mobi optimizes them for the old tiny low-res screens and doesn't take advantage of the higher screen quality we have with a dedicated reader.
I think they can look pretty decent in four-level. The screensaver quality is the quality of pics that I get on my Sony PRS-500 and on that it was only four-level gray. (I think the 505 went up to 8 levels)
But based on this screen res and four-levels of gray, the pictures should be able to be very decent. I was pretty impressed at how they looked on the 500. I think the screensaver pics just take advantage of the full res of the screen, mobi-pics (azw pics) doesn't do that because it's using an older method of rendering the images.
As an example, I looked at my book cover for Prester John and compared it on both screens. Looks great on my Sony prs-500, looks totally suckalicious on my Kindle. Text on the other hand looks the same quality on both.
But again, I realize that this device is made for reading on, but I still like to have a nice high-quality cover to look at.
I'd be really interested if HarryT or somebody with a cybook/illiad and a Sony Reader could compare and see if there is a difference in the book cover quality.