Thread: Touch Kobo Touch Review
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Old 06-12-2011, 08:18 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by taming View Post
You can "clear" the ghosting, as you are reading, by going back a page, and then forward again. When you do that, if you pay attention, you'll notice that the first 3 pages are fine, then you will start to see the ghosting. It clears out when a full refresh happens after six pages.

I'm guessing that the Kobo (and Nook) developers had to choose between ghosting/partial refreshes/speed and no ghosting/full page refreshes/slower speed. The decision to go for speed was made. I hate the ghosting, and would have made a different choice, but had Kobo done that, we would have complaints about the speed here in place of the complaints about the ghosting.

I wonder if it could be made into user's choice, as well. Or, since the fist three pages seem fine, if a compromise might be to do the full refresh after three, rather than after six.
I have the same problem with ghosting, it can get quite bad. Took it back and got another touch, assuming it was a defective screen, but the next one did the same thing. The manager quite rudely told me I was the only one with this issue! Ha! I have asked this a a question for the new kobo touch tech department and have been waiting two days for a reply. I'm going to wait until this issue is resolved and stick with my old Kobo.
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