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Originally Posted by FJames
Kindle -> full screen refresh on every page turn
Kobo Touch -> full screen refresh adjustable from 1 to 6 pages
If ghosting is bothering you in the cold, why not just set the page refresh to every page?
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I have page refresh set to every page (K4), because ghosting bothers me even at room temperature. But this has nothing to do with the fact that when you put it to screen saver mode, the previous 3 pages display over top of each other. The device always refreshes to display the screen saver, so that's unrelated.
My point was that in the extreme cold, the refresh was failing completely. Even when I turned the device to screen saver, it would still display sections of the previous three pages. My understanding is that the technology uses liquid oil as a medium for the "ink", and that below a certain temperature, the liquid turns to solid and the technology fails.
This isn't a design or software flaw, it's simply the fact that these devices were not build to be used at -30C (-22F), especially when the wind chill pushes it down to -48C (-54.4F). Fortunately, the devices recover fine when brought back to room temperature, at least initially. I haven't done repeated testing for long term affects...