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Old 04-26-2013, 01:59 AM   #463
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Originally Posted by Fourl29 View Post
It doesn't matter what you think, it's an objective fact about contrast and bezel colour in einik readers. I dislike the general tackiness of black plastic too, and I prefer a white bezel in general, but the perceived contrast is inferior in a device with a white bezel, I wasn't aware of that, but I figured as much by reading other people here who knew a few more things than I did, and explained why. I can't replicate their posts I am afraid, but someone might want to pick this up and do so, better than I did.
Perceived is not objective. Perceived is opinion. Having followed several discussions over bezel colour having an effect, it would appear that some people think it has an effect, other people think it doesn't have an effect and a third group decorate their devices with various colourful skins and don't seem to notice any effect.

The only objective fact I found was that an ereader with a bezel that reflected more light than the "white" portion of the eInk display caused the eInk background to be perceived as light gray. That is pretty easy to demonstrate -- put a chunk of standard printer paper (around 92% reflectance) on an eInk display and it does make the 70% (minimum) reflectance of the eInk display look grey.

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