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Originally Posted by Barty
I have a KK. Fwiw, the black on the KK is very noticeably darker (this is comparing the built in Caecilia and helvetica fonts). The background on the KK is also lighter and neutral gray ; the pw2 it is darker and yellowish. I have to turn the light on the pw2 to about 9 to match the KK background with indoor daylight.
It does not help that the built in fonts on the pw2 are very light, and it does not allow you to load custom fonts. But even when I embed a thicker font in azw3 files, it's still not as readable as the KK because the "ink" is just not as dark. This may be ok with other people, but for me, I rather have dark text albeit with darker background than light text with really white background. As an analogy, I'd rather read a newspaper with dark print rather than a glossy magazine with faint text. YMMV.
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I still have my KK 3G and I permanently using my PW 1st gen. With the light on the PW switched off (as far as possible) the font identical, i.e. same book with publisher font Caecilia in this case) my verdict is: The KK is at least as black, if not very slightly darker and the back ground is slightly lighter grey.
The round letters, in particular the rounded letters, look more crisp on the PW. That is of course due to the higher resolution.
Since I read only with the light on, the PW has more contrast than the KK. I set the light to level 13 during the day and to level 1, 2, or 3 for night reading (dark room). During twilight I set it to 6 or 7.
The PW2 has to be better than the PW1. Else it goes back to Amazon.