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Old 03-23-2012, 02:22 PM   #149
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze View Post
Which might be partly why the experience of reading on my Epic is so fatiguing no matter how I set the contrast.

There's also the sense that, for all the praise heaped on its deep blacks, my older AMOLED screen makes text slightly less distinct. As if the spaces between letters were painted rather than etched, if that analogy makes sense.

I've looked at both screens side by side and the e-ink's grays and blacks look a little like applied enamel to me. They almost have the appearance of texture, which I don't find true on my AMOLED.
Most AMOLED screens are RGBG pentile matrices, which explains fuzziness of small text.

Eink screens have "texture" to them, again because of the way the pixels are formed. Where LCD screens will have RGB triplets or RGBG groupings, eink pixels are basically little "bubbles" that contain drops of white and black pigments that are attracted to the surface as needed for display. So you end up with a mottled pixel that looks more like ink on paper than a solid color pixel from an LCD. And that's also why ppi is not quite as important for eink as it is for LCD, since eink pixels are "less sharp" and thus make smoother letter shapes at lower resolution.
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