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I just received mine. Overall it appears to be excellent. I do have one small pinhole, but it is only visible at all with the light cranked way up in the dark -- not a way I'm ever going to use it.
Others have commented on the quality of the screen, the light, and the speed. I don't really have anything to add there except to reiterate that all three are improved. I have noticed a couple of things that no one else seems to have mentioned, however, both good and bad.
The good: the partial refresh problem seems to be fixed. On the PW 1, whenever a menu was opened over the page and then dismissed, there were always some lines of text that did not refresh properly and were left looking washed out. This happened pretty much all the time. I do not see this happening on the current model at all.
The bad: there appears to be regression in the dictionary software. On the current version of the PW 1 firmware one can select an alternate dictionary from the definition window. That option is not present in the current model. I discovered this because the book I'm currently reading -- bought from Amazon -- is in Spanish, but the metadata for the book says it is English. Therefore when I lookup a word, it uses the English dictionary and I cannot change it without resetting the metadata in Calibre. I'm sure this issue will be resolved in firmware.
I think this is a worthwhile upgrade that will garner far fewer complaints than the earlier model. I am keeping my PW 1 as second reader for my wife. I never had any major complaints about it.
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