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Originally Posted by Quilathus
Furthermore, unlike computer monitors which have RGB (or similar) subpixels, e-Ink doesn't have that luxury meaning that anti-aliasing must consume a full pixel, rather than sub-pixel rendering only having to cover part of a pixel. Thus on the monitor I'm typing on, even at only 95.8 ppi - with 3 subpixels per pixel, it actually has a perceived horizontal resolution of 287.3 ppi when rendering text. A big difference.
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That's a matter of personal preference.
Personally, I can't stand sub-pixel anti-aliasing. It creates colored fringe which is very difficult for me to look at. I much prefer the regular whole-pixel anti-aliasing to sub-pixed anti-aliasing, and I prefer no anti-aliasing at all over any anti-aliasing scheme.
My brain doesn't process the illusion of greater resolution that anti-aliasing schemes are trying to create, and thus I just see blurry (smoothed) fonts instead of crisp (jagged) ones. And thus I prefer to look at the crisp jagged ones. So to me, there is no perceived (imagined) increase in resolution when using anti-aliasing, but especially not with sub-pixel anti-aliasing.
I just hope that the developers of these devices can design fonts to fully utilize the additional available resolution on these new screens so as to rely less (and eventually not at all) on anti-aliasing.
From what I've seen on the iPhone 4, they seem to be doing just that, but I can't really say for sure.
Edit: CR looked at it:
http://blogs.consumerreports.org/ele...on-kindle.html