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Originally Posted by ToboldH
Please excuse my ignorance, as I tend to focus more on the books I want to read than on the technical specifications of the devices, sometimes treating my device like a bookmark, just a means to make reading easier, but I thought I read somewhere than Pearl has 16 shades while "older" displays are only capable of displaying 8 shades. Of course, these shades are all "grey", so perhaps it means nothing, perhaps my eyes aren't capable of discerning a difference, but it sounded at least a little bit fancier.
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The number of grey-scales is determined by the electronics of the screen controller. There have been older eInk devices which also had 16 grey-scales (iRex devices, for example).
The Pearl screens have MUCH better contrast than the older screens. There's no difference in the background colour; the difference is that on the Pearl screens, the "black" is much "blacker". Comparing a 2nd gen screen and a Pearl screen side-by-side, the difference is very noticeable indeed.