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@Karlos-Fandango: What do you mean by "8 bit display" and "8 bit images"?
The eink kindles all have a 4-bit display giving 16 shades of gray. Even the K4 and K5 that have an 8-bit framebuffer require that the bottom 4-bits of each framebuffer byte must be a copy of the top 4-bits, so the eink hardware only displays 4-bit values. Up to 256 perceived gray values are done using dithering of 4-bit shades of gray.
A true 8-bit display could display 256 shades of gray without requiring any dithering. So what you describe could mean that your kindle has BETTER display quality than a normal eink kindle. But the tone of your first post feels like you mean that the quality is WORSE than a normal display, so perhaps what you meant to say was that it looks like a "1-bit display".
Please clarify your statement with CORRECT technical terminology. Thanks.
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