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Originally Posted by jswinden
No offense intended, but you often tell us how you cannot see very well due to cataracts and other severe eye problems. You might not see these issues in the 2012 or 2013 PW units, but others damn sure do. Your statements are downright offensive to those who can CLEARLY see the flaws in their PWs since it implies they are lying or hallucinating.  |
Optical illusions can be seen by many people and even photographed. There are thousands of pictures of "flying saucers" available for viewing. It is the same with desert images and they can be photographed.
Hallucinations are different and are a product of a single person's mind.
I've never said anyone was seeing hallucinations. I have used the specific phrase: OPTICAL ILLUSION.
Optical Illusions are bending of light waves to simulate real events and large groups can see them and photos can be made of them.
Stare at a wall for 30 minutes without distraction and you will see them. We all will see them.
These eReaders all use screens lighted by different methods. All are subject to many kinds of optical illusions. The trick is to just read the FONTS and forget the variety of lighting effects.
The PW 2013 has a much lighter background than the PW 2012 and projects an ILLUSION of crisper and clearer fonts. That illusion benefits our reading and is the only one we should accept.
Telling folks not to buy the PW 2013 because of other lighting effects causes them to miss a great reading opportunity.
Having "older" eyes forces me to focus on near and far vision and forget all the rest. Thus, I do not use glasses whereas almost 99% of the folks at my age do and even with them a large percentage have little or no vision.
At this moment in time, if one goes to the PW 2013 page at Amazon, there are 54 reviews. Of those there are 37 FIVE star reviews and only 3 one star reviews. Try and find other products at Amazon with over a 10 to 1 ratio of 5 star to 1 star reviews. That kind of response is very rare. If there were real problems, the ratio would be reversed and most of the products I see there have that unfavorable reporting.
It should be noted that ALL 3 of the one star reviews are NOT labeled Amazon Verified Purchaser. Thus, they did NOT buy their units from Amazon. Almost all the 5 star reviews are from Amazon Verified Purchasers.
By the way, I've reported a five star review myself at Amazon. In my opinion the PW 2013 is the best eReader on the market today and no dedicated readers should miss it. If they get a real defective one, Amazon will give them a new one at no cost to the customer. There is no financial risk to try one.
Finally, how was the PW 2013 you ordered?