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Originally Posted by Julius Caesar
Higher resolution may help with dynamic fonts but under certain circumstances, it may be counter productive with pictures.
The current generation of Kindle Paperwhite has approx 1024x768 resolution. Let's say the next generation ereader from Amazon has 1600x1200 resolution, same screen size. Consider you have an ebook with a picture, 1024x768 resolution. The picture would look better with the current generation than the next generation since with the next generation, the picture needs to be blown up from its native resolution of 1024x768 to 1600x1200. It wouldn't look pretty.
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Assuming that the size of the screen is the same, and the scaling algorithm doesn't sacrifice quality for speed, then it will look roughly the same as with the lower resolution screen of the same size. Any actual loss of quality would be from scaling by a non-integer multiple... but filtering can help there.
However, the pixelation will be more obvious in comparison to higher resolution pictures and text. This makes the lower resolution jump out more and look out of place compared to a screen where everything is more pixelated from the lower resolution.