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Originally Posted by jswinden
Agree! I might have perhaps lived with the shadowy blobs on the PW1 if they had been shades of grey (50?  ) rather than blue and pink. Though the text was a bit blurry on occasion too, but the blurry text could have been fixed by FW whereas the shadowy blobs were hardware related. |
There has been a fix with regard to the text. If you called up the menu and then dismissed it, the KPW showed thinner text on places where the menu had been. This problem suddenly disappeared. It seems the KPW now refreshes all text when a menu or other screen is closed.
The "shadowy blobs" are there on my Kindle in some circumstances, but I don't really care about them. A book was never ever perfectly lighted in the past, and had way more shadow on the pages than even the worst KPW.
I have no screen discoloration, except in a pitch black room with the setting on something like 20+, but I think that discoloration is just because my eyes are getting burned out.
Now that I have (finally) settled on a font (my own DejaVu Serif Fat) and a nice workflow to organize, build and convert my (mostly EPUB) library, I think I'll be using the KPW for a very, very long time to come. I've been known to use hardware for 10+ years if I'm satisfied with it.
"Satisfied" will not always mean it's the best in it's class or it has no disadvantages: it means that I have gotten it to work as I want it to work, possibly working around disadvantages in one way or another. Changing the hardware and/or software causes the need to start optimizing again.
This is also the reason why I'm very reluctant to upgrade software (or firmware) without having my current version on hand, AND a known way to return to that version if need be.