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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
If you're seeing one background as brighter than another, it's just an optical illusion caused by the darkness and thickness of the font used, which you can change on the Pearl e-ink screens. I actually don't see any difference in the background at all myself looking at the image. But to prove it, if you take the sample image and copy a section of the background only from the Sony and paste it onto the Kindle background area, you'll see they're identical.
Just change the font on the Sony, or at least adjust the viewing settings for the default, and the backgrounds should look pretty much the same.
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A page that is more densely populated with text will appear darker. The easiest way to illustrate that is to look at a piece of paper with one character on it vs one with a bunch of text. The background is still white but because of the text the page appears darker. So when lighting isn't bright, there's less "white" to reflect which makes it harder to read the text when a page is full of small font sized text.
Your last statement is where the problem lies. Because of the 5" screen size you're limited to using the small or medium font. But the medium font is too large of a step from the small font so it has serious text formatting issues. So being limited to using the small font you hit the threshold of being able to read comfortably when indoors and either have to up the font size to medium and deal with the formatting issues or increase the lighting so you can comfortably read using the small font.
With a 6" display this is less of an issue since you can use a larger font size (similar to the medium one on the PRS-350) without the text formatting issues the PRS-350 has.