Thread: Paperwhite Second Gen: First Impressions
View Single Post
Old 10-08-2013, 09:15 PM   #881
krazy4katz
Addict
krazy4katz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.krazy4katz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.krazy4katz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.krazy4katz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.krazy4katz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.krazy4katz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.krazy4katz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.krazy4katz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.krazy4katz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.krazy4katz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.krazy4katz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
krazy4katz's Avatar
 
Posts: 367
Karma: 1552656
Join Date: Feb 2009
Device: [Kindle 1, Kindle 3 (KK)], Kindle Voyage, iPad Pro
Quote:
Originally Posted by fearindex View Post

I own and have owned most Kindles, some several of, and have PW2 on international pre-order, and I too think the frontlit e-ink readers overall have brought an inconsistent experience into e-ink that wasn't there before. Apparently the process of adding touch and light guides on top of e-ink screens is really hard to get consistently right, add to this LED quality allowances, dust getting between the layers, lower text blackness and e-ink-paper-likeness suffering from the added layers etc., and I do believe people are rightly concerned about these things.
This makes me think I should keep my KK with the m-Edge light/cover combination. However, I will wait until my Best Buy gets a demo unit (they do sell the PW2, but don't have one on display) and decide then. Ah, the temptations of technology!
krazy4katz is offline   Reply With Quote