Thread: Paperwhite Second Gen: First Impressions
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Old 10-03-2013, 10:57 AM   #412
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Originally Posted by Ocicat View Post
PW5 might be the one which comes close to perfection.

There seems to be some quirks with the refreshing, will have more time to read this evening and will set it to refresh every page.
Last night, paging thru the cloud books in cover view, it was refreshing/flashing every other page, after displaying the screen, a somewhat blinding effect.
Yes! That's exactly it. Mine was doing this while reading. It started to bother my eyes after awhile. I agree with you it's going to take a few more years for Amazon to work out the kinks and really perfect the PW. I was thrilled not to have color blobs on the screen, but after using it last night and seeing the glowing pinhole speck and then some of the refresh issues, I just think I'm best passing and sticking with my PW1.

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Originally Posted by Chi Cygni View Post
Are you sure this is a pinhole? I thought I had one too but I cleaned the screen and it disappeared. I would go mad if I had a pinhole, I would not see anything else and I'd hate (OCD here I come). I've been hovering over this thread like a hawk because as you perhaps remember I could still return my PW1 when the new one was announced. But I decided to keep it. Is not so easy to return to US from Europe so I cannot really afford and would not want to play Russian roulette with pinholes and somesuch. I cannot just walk into a store and return it. My PW1 is very good, I have no complaints. But I'd love to have ivory/yellow screen even though mine already has yellow tint to it.
Yes, mine is definitely a pinhole, unfortunately. First thing I did was clean the screen in that area and it's still there. Sad to say that I'm an old pro now at knowing each PW issue and possible solutions for it, LOL.

I definitely think you made the right choice keeping yours. I'm seeing more and more that the variation between PW's can differ more than you might expect. I had 2 PW2s and the lighting and color of the screen was different on both of them. One being a creamy yellow tint and the other being a slightly cooler white. So not all the PW2's have the yellow tint, some are slightly cooler in tone.

They both had pinholes though and the first one also had a few black specks. Dust trapped between the screens, I assume. I think it's a great reader, but since I wasn't 100% happy with mine, I think I'm best off just sticking with my PW1 for now. I'm glad you're so pleased with yours. I'm actually very used to my PW1 now so I'm ok sticking with it for another year.
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