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Originally Posted by NullNix
Everyone keeps talking about these hues... I don't know if I was fantastically lucky or if I am just blind as a bat, but my device is hueless, with a single dust speck in the middle of the screen (completely ignorable) and a whitish-yellow screen cast. Batch 502. I've never had to send one back: this is not only the only Paperwhite I've ever owned but the only one I've ever seen, now I'm not riding the trains every day and surrounded by other Kindlers.
I was actually expecting hues and was very surprised to not get any -- given that the Paperwhite's light guide is basically a fibre optic cable on its side mixed with a diffraction grating, I expected some diffraction effects, but I can see none.
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It depends on the ambient light levels, as well as the setting of the Kindle itself. If I read on the Kindle without its light on, then the screen is greyish-yellow, like the one from the Touch was. If I turn the light on, the page gets whiter and whiter, until it starts to "glow" like an LCD. Therefore, I prefer a setting to mix the ambient light with that of the Kindle itself in such a way that the screen just looks white, and not glowing like an LCD.
However, if I turn the ambient lighting off, then the screen starts to fringe all over after some time: green and purple, and it actually starts to shimmer before my eyes. It becomes very hard to read for me; in the same way an LCD is hard to read for me in complete darkness.